Madiskon develops through practical experimentation and collaboration. You can contribute through code, a local pilot, research and teaching, cultural heritage material, expertise or a development project.
Help develop the Madiskon core, user interface, integrations or tools as part of an open-source project.
Set up your own Madiskon instance and test the model with your own material. Pilots can be run by museums, associations, local heritage groups and organisations working in cultural heritage or communications.
Develop the platform, integrations or extensions as part of a funded project and share reusable results back with the community.
A university, higher education institution or other educational organisation can run its own instance as a research, teaching and experimentation environment — for example in digital history courses, student projects or source-based research.
Contribute use cases, metadata, source material, concepts and working practices from your own field.
Try out the workflows and software, comment on specifications, and help improve documentation, accessibility and usability.
Help translate the interface, documentation and terminology, and adapt them appropriately to different cultural contexts.
Operate Studio or index instances, or build deployment, maintenance and integration services around the open ecosystem.
If you work with cultural heritage, research, local history, teaching or communications related to Saint Olav, you can express interest in helping shape the pilot. You do not need a ready-made project or your own Madiskon instance. Read the pilot vision →
Pyhän Olavin Kilta is initiating the development of Madiskon and provides the first practical materials and use cases for testing the model.
Digitalia is the Digital Information Management Research Centre at South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (Xamk). Its expertise includes digital information management and archiving, digital business, the usability of digital materials, and the application of new technologies to digital materials, including artificial intelligence, VR/AR and 3D digitisation.
Digitalia coordinates Memory Campus, an information management cluster based in Mikkeli. The cluster brings together expertise, research, education and development in archiving, digitisation and information management. Madiskon collaborates with Digitalia in research and development.
The Finnish Local Heritage Federation is the national central organisation for local heritage and cultural heritage work in Finland. It supports the activities, expertise and collaboration of local communities. The Federation promotes the preservation, accessibility and diverse use of cultural heritage and develops digital solutions suited to local organisations.
The Federation and Madiskon share a particular interest in making cultural heritage materials held by smaller communities easier to discover, use and share. The Federation participates in dialogue and collaboration concerning the development of Madiskon.
Visit the Finnish Local Heritage Federation →
For collaboration, piloting or development enquiries, contact info@madiskon.org. Technical participation will also be directed to the Madiskon GitHub repository once it is public.
