DMR-FIRST Plugins for Drupal and WordPress
The DMR-FIRST web application builds a searchable public database of NSF-funded research instruments, but in order to integrate your instruments, it needs metadata about your instruments in a machine-readable form.
We have developed the Research Instrument Plugin/Module for Drupal and WordPress which builds those instrument metadata out of the data you are already entering in your Content Management System; and embeds those in the head of the web page. This assures that the metadata in the head is always consistent with the data shown on the instrument web page.
Both Drupal and WordPress also allow you to select what data to display on the instrument page, while still including all other data in the research instrument form, in the database and as meta data on the instrument page. DMR-FIRST requires and recommends certain fields in order to build comparable instrument pages at dmr-first.org, but that doesn't need to impact how instrument web pages look on your site.
The module adds a content/post type Research Instrument with fields for all attributes used by the DMR-FIRST application. One of these fields is the digital object identifier (DOI). The Research Instrument Plugin/Module can register a DOI for your instruments whenever you add new instruments to your CMS.
Which Content Management Systems are supported by DMR-FIRST?
For Drupal: version 10, we are currently working on a module for Drupal 11
For WordPress: version 6.
Please contact admin@dmr-first.org if you are using another Content Management System.
Validating the meta data
You can test the generated output using the Schema Validator. The validation page checks if all required fields are present and lists any missing recommended fields.