Django Publishing System Arkestra
- Django Publishing System Arkestra repository: https://github.com/evildmp/Arkestra
- Description source: http://readthedocs.org/projects/arkestra
Arkestra is free open source semantic CMS based on Django. Essentially it is a set of applications that greatly extends Django’s capabilities. Alternatively, Arkestra is a powerful system that extensively utilizes Django web framework to create a semantic model of the institution and its activities: its organisation, internal structures and relations with other institutions, people, news, events, place, vacancies, studentships and more.
Arkestra is an intelligent system
Arkestra has been designed to automate the web editor's job.
It is an intelligent system - it structures information and makes use of connections between data to simplify the process of web publishing. It uses these connections, explicit and implicit, to automate as much as can be automated, so that the web editor workload is cut in half.
Arkestra is a semantic system
It's also a semantic CMS - it doesn't simply store data, but manages information according to a model of the real world. This means that every item of information in the system (including for example information published in Django CMS pages) has meaning because it is associated with real-world objects, and placed in their context.
Arkestra Benefits
- This thorough-going semantic modelling makes the notion of an information-driven web publishing system real.
- Arkestra uses data relationships intelligently to inform the user about its output, thus also saving user's time
- Arkestra's can use Django publishing and site management frameworks
- Not thinking about databases and models is an excellent way to solve the problem of combining rich, useful real-world modelling with flexible, portable information structures
- Powerful Semantic Presentation Editor makes it possible for users to create complex page layouts freely, without the constraint of predefined templates or knowledge of HTML/CSS, and without producing abominably-structured HTML