drupalib A place for library drupallers to hang out

Anyone tried using Drupal or any other CMS as an interface to Fedora? Fedora has several APIs for managment and access, the simplest of which is a REST API like this:

http://example.com/search?terms=test&title=true&creator=true&xml=true

This URL returns a chunk of XML containing the titles and creators of objects in the Fedora repository matching a keyword search for 'test'. It should be possible to submit this type of query from a search form within Drupal, get a results list back, transform that list into links that contain subsequent queries that retrieve entire documents. The documents are then displayed within the Drupal CMS.

In this case, Drupal is just the skin on top of the Fedora repository. This architecture is not the same as that of my my prototype DLCMS, where documents and their metadata are stored in Drupal itself. One thing both approches have in common is that they both need to know how to display the retrieved documents. In the DLCMS, the document handlers perform this function. If the Fedora documents are returned as XML, they could be transformed on the fly and incorporated into Drupal's output.

It might be worth exploring how "skinning" Fedora with Drupal works as opposed to using Fez and Elated, two dedicated web interfaces to Fedora. There are also APIs for creating and modifying Fedora objects, and these could be wrapped in Drupal along with the search and display APIs.