As part of the Web improvement and modernization initiative of the US Forest Service, HGC was tasked with updating the public search functionality for all research “Treesearch” publications, comprised of over 56,000 studies and papers.

The public-facing service needed to be migrated from its original oracle-based backend system to a modern Drupal one. And a regular update process needed to be in place to regularly import new publications, until a planned future phase allows scientists and researches to submit via an update Drupal content editing interface.

Note: the update forms will provide several major quality of life improvements for submitting and editing – and utilize the full power of Drupal’s content management capabilities. However, there are several additional dissemination methods and data integrations to change over first