Kulturnik.si

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Kulturnik.si

Ljudmila, Rimska 8, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://kulturnik.si

urednik@kulturnik.si

Phone386 (0) 1 426 9530

Managed byLjudmila

Kulturnik.si (beta) has been developed by the Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory and launched in December 2013. The portal consists of a metasearch engine and features cultural news and events aggregated from Slovene digital sources and collections related to arts and culture. The project has been supported by the Ministry of Culture, it complements the eContents initiative that supports interoperability and the re-use of public data in cultural sectors (Digital Agenda for Europe). Cultural producers and media are invited to contact Ljudmila to get included as data resources.

Metasearch engine

Kulturnik metasearch engine is a search tool that enables access to 30 selected Slovene web resources (databases, websites, portals, archives) covering cultural heritage as well as all art disciplines. Once entering the search term, comprehensive search results are obtained from all relevant resources. Lists of texts, images or video links can be filtered by resources.

News and events aggregator

Novice (News) gather cultural news from the RSS feeds of around 170 resources, the websites of Slovene cultural producers and organisations, cultural blogs as well as all cultural sections of Slovene media on the web. The first part of the news is shown with an adjacent image and the link to the original site. In 2014 the Ljudmila team works on making the search results better in collaboration with data managers according to the basic standards.

Dogodki (Events) are aggregated from the former Kulturnik and from the Facebook where lots of events are published nowadays. This part of the portal is under development.

Background

The first cultural events aggregator was launched as Kulturnik.si as early as in 2005 by Ljudmila - Ljubljana Digital Media Lab for the M3C Multimedia Centres Network of Slovenia. Kulturnik was a pioneer project-in-progress, an open source database covering daily cultural events around Slovenia and "fed" by the regional multimedia centres.

The information has been aggregated from several regional web portals maintained by the members of the network and from individual events organisers and producers (for example, Gromka and K4 clubs, Kinoteka and Kinodvor cinemas, Ljubljana Festival, KUD France Prešeren ...). The former Kulturnik database has become one a part of the new Kulturnik, covering cultural events, in 2014 it wil be further developed.

See also

• Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory
• M3C Multimedia Centres Network of Slovenia

External links

• Kulturnik.si portal with the metasearch engine
• Kulturnik News aggregator
• The list of the sources of Kulturnik