LII: Under the hood. Drupal, XML databases, and a few good editors.

How does the LII do what it does?  In this session, we'll walk you through the technical architecture of our new Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) service.  This is a something-for-everyone session that will have both advanced and simple technical elements, as well as things of interest to content managers, librarians, and editorial supervisors.

Specific topics covered (or at least touched on) will include the eXist open-source XML database server, Drupal, the Sphinx full-text engine, character-encoding problems, practical content management, SEO for legal-reference websites, and maintaining associated metadata and crowdsourced material when the underlying data is revised.