Madiskon
Cultural Heritage Studio

Cultural heritage from source material to publication.

Madiskon helps bring together dispersed materials, discover the connections between them and tell their stories to audiences. Structured data, open links and documented workflows support the journey from sources to published stories.

Materials

Bring together cultural heritage from different sources without requiring everything to be moved into one system.

Connections

Connect people, places, events, materials and sources into meaningful wholes.

Tell and publish

Turn material into stories that audiences can understand, discover and reuse.

Saint Olav 2030 — pilot vision

Madiskon’s first long-term pilot vision looks towards 2030: organisations and communities in different countries could use their own Saint Olav material to produce compelling, well-sourced and interlinked stories. Explore the pilot vision.

Idea

Not a new collection management system, but a bridge between source material and storytelling.

Madiskon starts from the idea that cultural heritage materials and their metadata should remain where they are already maintained. The Studio helps find, gather, describe and connect them — and carry the work through to a story published for an audience.

Ӟечбур! Гажаса ӧтиськом. In Udmurt: Hello! Welcome. — Madiskon / мадиськон refers to telling and storytelling.
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