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What is cultURIze?

A way to help collection administrators persistently identify collection items on the web.

Who needs CultURIze?

Registrars, curators and managers of small or medium cultural heritage collections.

How does it work?

CultURIze is a four-step process to create a persistent URI for a collection item:
(1) record the persistent URI and the corresponding webresource in a spreadsheet,
(2) turn the spreadsheet into a server configuration file with the help of the cultURIze app,
(3) upload the file to a code sharing repository (for example your own Github repository)
(4) use it to periodically update your webserver and activate the persistent URI.

Depending on the IT-resources available, collection administrators may choose to execute the full process themselves or hire an external expert to cover one or more steps.

Where do I start?

Setting up and running a CultURIze workflow takes six steps:

• Define the domain and numbering scheme for your persistent URIs.
• Set up a webserver.
• Set up a code repository and link it to your webserver.
• Record the persistent URIs in a spreadsheet.
• Download and install the desktop application and use it to turn your spreadsheet into a server configuration file and push it to your code repository. The repository will automatically update the URIs on the webserver.

Repeat last two steps every time you add a persistent URI or change the URL of a webresource.

How can I contribute?

CultURIze is an open-source project. Learn more about governance of the CultURIze project. You are a developer and you would like contribute to the CultURIze code? Here's a list of things we would like to improve.