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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. connect your webserver to the GitHub repository to activate and periodically update the persistent URI's.

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?

After downloading and installing CultURIze, setting up and running a workflow takes six steps:

1. Define the domain and numbering scheme for your persistent URIs.
2. Record the persistent URIs in a spreadsheet.
3. Set up a code repository.
4. Use CultURIze to turn your spreadsheet into a server configuration file and push it to your code repository.
5. Configure a webserver so that it will automatically create and update the URIs on the webserver.

Repeat steps 2 and 4 every time you add a persistent URI or change the URL of a webresource.