Openculturas
OpenCulturas is a pre-configured platform for arts and cultural organizations to manage and share their information. It allows users to create event calendars, location listings, profiles for individuals and groups, and a magazine, while giving them control over their own data.
Arts + culture portal software for regional marketing and digital souvereignty
OpenCulturas is built as a pre-configured platform for cultural-focused communities, empowering actors in the cultural field to own their data and make their information accessible to a wide audience.
How do I download OpenCulturas?
composer create-project --remove-vcs drupal/openculturas_project example.org
For contributions, get the source at OpenCulturas Project page.
Any facet of an arts + culture community, infinitely interconnectable
- Calendar: Add event dates and list them in a filterable event calendar (plus map)
- Locations: Create event locations that can be referenced and are aggregated on a map
- Personal Profiles: Create your profile and showcase your information
- Group Profiles: Create a profile for your group, such as a band, performance group or theatre ensemble
- Magazine: Publish magazine articles on spotlight topics, such as artist interviews or concert reviews
- Event Catalogue: Re-usable event (or workshop) descriptions, displayed in a catalogue with search filters
- Tagging in many dimensions, each tag automatically comes with a promotable landing page
Features
- Filterable overviews for all types (locations on a map, calendar, profiles overview, magazine
- Category pages aggregate context-filtered content
- Pre-configured "related content" blocks, e. g. a calendar related to a location/profile, connections to artist/ensemble profiles, referencing magazine articles
- Hierarchically structured taxonomies like focus categories, accessibility features, trigger warnings
- Interaction options like bookmark links for individual watchlists, public recommendations
- Review workflows
- Focus on user-generated content, with moderation workflows, abuse flags etc.
Based on repeating usability tests, there are yet more features on the roadmap.
Governance
Following what we've learned from FOSS communities, the distribution will not be "owned" by a company. Instead, the OpenCulturas Association invites site-owners and cultural organizations to decide about further development.