Major components¶

The IPBES website is based on DKAN, a Drupal Distribution. Additional modules have been added to extend functionality. Modules are added from contributed modules available from the Drupal Community contrib modules from the Drupal community.

DKAN consists of of a distribution profile which manages the initial installation, 3rd party libraries and drupal modules, and DKAN specific modules. Below is a simplified version of where the DKAN code sits within the code:

profiles/
    dkan/
      libraries/ (3rd party libraries)
      modules/
         dkan/ (dkan modules)
         contrib/ (3rd party module dependencies)
      themes/ (dkan themes)