Features overview
Frequently noted requirements that OpenCulturas meets out of the box:
- Free + open source - built with privacy, accessibility, diversity, and digital sovereignty in mind
Dynamic content
- All content interconnected
- Profiles for individuals and groups, such as artists, event organizers, bands, authors, influencers, visitors...
- Re-usable event descriptions (no more copy-paste of redundant information)
- Re-usable event locations (no more antique information copies - owners can change their contact data for any connected event date at once)
- Extensible accessibility + trigger warnings for locations and event descriptions
- Multilingual (English + German by default)
- Editorial content: create custom content pages with individual menu hiearchy, offer a magazine with customizable columns, offer FAQ pages
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Custom teasers
- Use headline, main image, and teaser text as a default - or override some of these fields to allow context-related calls to action
- Create nicely layouted teasers for external links as well
Media
- Galleries incorporating A/V media
- Image library, including access to Creative Commons assets
- Bulk editing (e. g. complement license information)
- Crop options for images with odd dimensions
- Sponsors with their logos (global or per page)
Usability
- User accounts via (optional) self-register, with double-opt-in
- User journey-oriented dashboard with structured own content, bookmarks, and step-by-step calls to action
- Faceted full-text search
- Base design responsive and WCAG compliant, easily customizable - or integrate your own individual look + feel
- Consent management (terms of use, cookies)
Interactivity
- Personal bookmarks and public recommendations
- Content can be claimed, e. g. a location owner can take over a rudimentary location entry to enrich it with a profile text and images
- Optional commentability for all content and aggregation in a discussion forum
Goodies for site-owners
- Moderation/publication workflows for pre- or post-moderation
- Abuse report + profile claim processes (with configurable email notifications)
- Calendar widget/affiliate event calendars (pre-filtered, embeddable in partner sites)
- Structured data, prepared for schema.org compatibility
- Countless SEO-friendly landing-pages, automatically built for each focus topic, location type, event type ... simply add your custom tags and your users will use them
- Content versioning with an option to restore any version
