This is the ‘core’ application, which contains code elements that are used by multiple GLAMkit components, commands that can be used to install and integrate GLAMkit components and the documentation.
Superior moderation tools, email notification and starter templates.
Public event management tools for your institution. Create an event model that subclasses EventBase and you get sophisticated scheduling and repetition tools for free.
A configurable holding page for pre-launch or maintenance downtime.
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These are apps that exist outside the GLAMkit project, but work well in the GLAMkit ecosystem.
A page based CMS that can incorporate GLAMkit content apps. http://github.com/matthiask/feincms
Version control for your content. http://code.google.com/p/django-reversion/
Image resizing on the fly. http://code.google.com/p/sorl-thumbnail/
Django hooks for Yahoo! BOSS and Google site search.
Re-usable, uploadable media assets (images, video, audio) with metadata.
Content ranking system. Flexible, powerful, ‘featured content’ management.
Draft, published, removed modes for content. Time-based publishing.
Allow users to collect their favourite objects.
Support for audiotours.
Media releases.
Tools to display exhibition info.
Collection search and browse, multilingual publishing tools, mailing lists and newsletters, contact forms, surveys etc.