Dédalo
Managing Cultural Heritage Archives
Managing Cultural Heritage Archives
Key Features
Dédalo comes with many features aimed to help curators and researchers build Cultural archives.
Free and Open source
A completely open and free software maintained by a dedicated development community.
Internet first
Since our beginnings in 1998, Dédalo has been built as an Internet application, enabling access from anywhere.
Flexible data
Dédalo is controlled by an ontological definition that creates layer abstraction of the code and data flow.
Ready-to-use
Dédalo implements severalontologies as standard: Oral History, Archeology, Numismatics, Intangible, Ethnology and more.
Multimedia
Manage video, audio, image, vectorial, pdf, maps, scores..
Safe
Internet security standards compliant. There is detailed control of user access to data and areas. All user events log
Multi language data application
Real multi language management system. We work with multiple data translations simultaneously.
Integrated thesaurus
Full featured hierarchicalthesaurus ready to work.
Transcription tool
Mediatranscription tools are included, such as interviews, image description, etc.
Indexation tool
Integratedindexation of any element, process or cultural feature inside Dédalo using the thesaurus.
Translation tool
Translate data manual or automatically using professional translators like open source Babel API or other APIs.
Web publication API
Create complex export schemas and websites using ontology control andOpen API.
Time Machine
Every data change is tracked and can be recovered.
Multi-project
Create different workflows, structured in projects, for different admins, teams or users.
Teamwork ready
Administrative tools to control team workflows.
Set and control permission at field level.
Toponymy included
148 countries out of the box.
~ 2,200,000 population units with georeferencing.
FAQ
Dédalo world in a nutshell
What is Dédalo?
Dédalo is an free and open-source software platform developed by a small community of enthusiasts supported by a small company: Render. Our objective is to create a Cultural Heritage, tangible, intangible and oral memory / history management system.
Dédalo is freely available for individuals, organisations, enterprises or institutions to install, configure, and extend in accordance with their particular needs and without restrictions.
Is Dédalo suitable for my project?
The main focus of the development is the Cultural Heritage field and Dédalo is specifically designed for the Cultural Heritage management and diffusion.
Dédalo is an open, flexible and customisable platform, the core capabilities and underlying technologies have been developed to support a wide range of uses based on different disciplines, Archeology, Ethnology, Anthropology, sociology, etc..
If your project is about humanities and you want create an archive and spread it with cutting-edge technologies, Dédalo is for you.
How can I start using Dédalo?
You can see our install tutorial ofv5 and forv6.
Dédalo is a complex server-client software, it runs in a Linux server with broad Internet connection and cutting edge technologies. The main goal of the platform is to use Internet technologies both cataloging and diffusing Cultural Heritage.
Dédalo is not a desktop app, you can access the interface with webKit browser like Chrome or Safari.
You will need a LAPP (Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, PHP) system to install and run it.
Contact
info@dedalo.dev