Since 2021, we have been developing the regional cultural platform OpenCulturas together with our client Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen. We call one expansion stage of this "Managed OpenCulturas". A centrally provided instance that enables a cost-effective entry into regional (cultural) marketing for operators.
Developed, done. We love trialling our own products. Eat your own dog food.
We wanted to test an edge case: How bulky is a product with a focus on culture if you use it to implement a company website? Our own website had to be used for this.
With just under 500 pieces of content, it is manageable enough to deal with its history and throw outdated content overboard.
OpenCulturas has a lot of exciting features that the "old" website didn't have. So it was also about information architecture at content level. We used to have a blog. Now we have a magazine. We used to be at a lot of events that we never made visible. Now we can do that. But how far back do we want to follow the story?
As soon as the plan is finalised, we start the migration. We normally recommend that our customers migrate the content programmatically. This involves mapping the "old" structure to the new structure and then importing it using a script. But since I hadn't seen the Netflix series "Money Heist" yet and manual migrations only take up part of my brain, the plan was clear:
See how far you can get in 5 seasons of the series.
All content was migrated in time for the grand finale, the new structure was in place and header images were created and added.
Managed OpenCulturas now also relieves us of manual maintenance, because new security updates and new features are rolled out for everyone. So also for our own website ;)
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