What is GLAMKit?
GLAM-Kit is a content publishing system for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums.
A flexible and robust solution. GLAM-Kit is built on top of Django (the industry-praised framework) and designed to meet the specific needs of cultural institutions. Choosing GLAMkit places you within a community of like-minded peers, so you can instantly reap the benefits of elegant solutions to common problems.
Under the hood
GLAM-Kit is built on top of Django. It's not just a grab bag of useful plug-and-play Django apps (although it comes with a few of those), but rather a set of tools, patterns and Django base classes which can be extended to produce a bespoke content publishing system.
The source code is available on gitHub, and released under BSD terms.
Who's behind it?
GLAM-Kit is an initiative of the Interaction Consortium (IxC) and continues to improve with every unique challenge we solve for our clients.
The best of both worlds
Whilst GLAMkit has the potential to live and breathe through the efforts of a global community of contributors, we always make sure that our client's projects remain stable and bug-free. GLAMkit has been tried and tested with respected and inspiring institutions, including The Art Gallery of NSW, The National Film & Sound Archive and The Powerhouse Museum's 'Go Play' calendar.
Goodbye proprietary
We strive for productive, long-term relationships with our clients and we hope you'll enjoy working with us by choice rather than just necessity. With that in mind, choosing an open-source framework like GLAMkit means that you can invite any developer with Django or front-end skills to maintain your website.
What you get // out of the box
Simple Admin Console
A simple but complete dashboard that website editors and administrators can access to manage all aspects of a site.
Events calendar tools
You can define what an event means to you (we've already got patterns for talks, screenings, workshops, exhibitions). GLAMkit gives you recurring events and event groups (festivals, programs, conferences) and provides RSS and iCal feeds any way you like.
Blog tools
Whether you want a collection item of the week blog, a podcast, a news page, jobs listing or just a plain vanilla blog, GLAMkit provides the hooks to arrange any of your data into a blog format, complete with archives and RSS feeds.
User Favourites
GLAMs attract audiences who love gathering and sharing knowledge. Take full advantage of this community by allowing users to create and share collections of their favourite items (it can be collection items, images, videos or any type of content on the site). Users can describe their collections, and annotate each item. This feature is great for researchers and education projects.
Third Party tools
Simple XML tools for scraping and cleaning gigabytes of XML data, great for pulling 3rd-party data into your new site's database. The possibilities are endless: it can be used to display latest tweets, retrieve map data, or automatically upload some of your photos to a Flickr account.
Comment tools
Passionate users will want to connect with each other, and with audience-facing staff at the institutions they care about. We have built tools that allow people to comment on your content and draw links to information elsewhere on your site and around the web.
And more...
There are a heap of other interesting features, we just can't list them all.
- Performance tools
- Anti-spam tools
- Usage statistics
- Search engine optimization
- etc
...and even more (soon)
We're dedicated to bringing the platform forward in the near future and have few noticeable updates scheduled on our roadmap.
- Visitor information pages
- User tagging
- Machine tags support
- Tools for working with non-relational databases
Developer?
Download the source and start playing on Github.
GLAMKit on GitHub
Learn more
If you would like to learn more about GLAM-Kit, we are here to help.
Just send us an email, and we'll get back to you shortly.
