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conStruct SCS is a structured content system that extends the basic Drupal content management framework. conStruct enables structured data and its controlling vocabularies (ontologies) to drive applications and user interfaces.

Users and groups can flexibly access and manage any or all datasets exposed by the system depending on roles and permissions. Report and presentation templates are easily defined, styled or modified based on the underlying datasets and structure. Collaboration networks can readily be established across multiple installations and non-Drupal endpoints. Powerful linked data integration can be included to embrace data anywhere on the Web.

Depending on roles and permissions, a given user may or may not see specific datasets or tools within the Drupal interface. Search and browse results are similarly sequestered depending on access rights.

conStruct provides Drupal-level CRUD (create - read - update - delete), data display templating, faceted browsing, full-text search, and import and export over structured data stores based on RDF. It also provides a system for additional tools additions and expansions for this structured data. conStruct SCS is built on the platform-independent structWSF Web services framework.

Like Drupal and structWSF, conStruct is free and open source (GPL license). Versions of conStruct are planned to adopt it to other content management systems (CMS).