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Building the Digital Backbone for Culture
Footlight CMS isn’t just a content management system. It’s a semantic engine for turning everyday information into public infrastructure—structured, shareable, and built for the age of AI.
What You Can Do
Streamline Your Workflow
No more juggling spreadsheets, email chains, or disconnected platforms. Footlight helps you manage structured information about people, places, organizations, and events—from one place. Aggregate, enrich, and publish cultural data without starting from scratch.
Publish Once. Stay Connected.
Footlight turns your calendars, listings, and directories into linked open data. That means your public information doesn’t just live on your site—it becomes part of a larger, searchable, machine-readable network.
Collaborate Without the Overhead
Cultural work is collaborative. Footlight makes it seamless. Whether you’re a presenter, artist, venue, or funder, you can contribute and share structured data with others—building a shared knowledge base that grows over time through network effects.
Make Cultural Information Discoverable
Say goodbye to siloed systems and buried content. Footlight structures data for discoverability—by people, search engines, AI tools, and partner platforms. Better data = better access.
Connect to Canada’s Open Knowledge Graph
Footlight is linked to Artsdata.ca, Canada’s open knowledge graph for the arts. This connection turns local content into national infrastructure—supporting visibility, interoperability, and long-term sustainability.
Why It Matters
Cultural data—like much public data—too often lives in silos: locked in PDFs, buried in websites, or forgotten in inboxes. But that information is valuable infrastructure. Footlight helps you shape it, not just store it. When communities control how their stories are structured, shared, and seen, we all benefit. Footlight is more than a tool—it’s a model for public-interest infrastructure in the digital age.