Kulturnik.si

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

Metasearch engine

The 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 a search term, the comprehensive search results are obtained from all relevant resources. Lists of texts, images or video links can be filtered by resources. Among the search results you'll find content from DLib.si - Digital Library of Slovenia, COBISS - Slovene Virtual Library, the Register of Slovene cultural heritage - rkd.situla.org, the Sigledal.org - Slovene theatre portal, EKumba Database, and more.

KULTURNIK.SI Promo Video by Ljudmila on Vimeo

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 will work 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 Facebook where lots of events are published nowadays. This part of the portal is still under development with new features expected in the coming year.

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 covering cultural events, has become a part of the new Kulturnik in 2014 it will be further developed.

Reports & Factsheets

External links

Kulturnik.si portal with the metasearch engine
Kulturnik News aggregator
The list of the sources of Kulturnik
Kulturnik.si blog
Kulturnik promo video on Vimeo
Kulturnik.si – slovenska kultura na enem mestu, videopresentation of Kulturnik from the ARNES Conference 27 May 2015 (in Slovenian)

Gallery

Animated Kulturnik.si banner, 200 x 100 px, 2015

Animated Kulturnik.si banner, 300 x 100 px, 2015

Animated Kulturnik.si banner, 300 x 300 px, 2015

Animated Kulturnik.si favicon, black & white, 2015

Animated Kulturnik.si logo, 2015

Animated Kulturnik.si banner, 100 x 45 px, 2015

Kulturnik.si banner, 180 px, 2015

Kulturnik.si banner, 195 px, 2015

Kulturnik.si banner, 300 px, 2015

A still frame from Kulturnik.si promo video featuring a marble bust of Ivan Cankar (1876–1918), the beginner of Modernism in Slovene literature, sculpted by Antonij Repič, shot in National Gallery of Slovenia, 2013.

A still frame from Kulturnik.si promo video featuring Ivana Kobilica's self-portrait in the National Gallery of Slovenia. Kobilica (1861–1926) was at the time the most prominent women painter who worked in Vienna, Munich, Paris, Sarajevo, Berlin, and Ljubljana. 2013

A still frame from Kulturnik.si promo video featuring the Church of the Archangel Michael on the Marsh (Črna vas near Ljubljana) designed by eminent architect Jože Plečnik and constructed in 1937-39. 2013

A still frame from Kulturnik.si promo video featuring the most recent museum space opened in Ljubljana in 2011, the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM). 2013

A still frame from Kulturnik.si promo video featuring a bust of Rihard Jakopič, the leading Slovene Impressionist painter and patron of arts. A public sculpture created by Janez Boljka in 1969 is located in front of the Jakopič Gallery. Shot in 2013.

A still frame from Kulturnik.si promo video featuring The Tartini Square in the city of Piran, named after Giuseppe Tartini born in Piran in 1692. 2013