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Communities and the Knowledge Commons
In the AI era, the question is not whether your community appears in machine-readable knowledge, but who decides how it is represented.
Footlight CMS connects your information to a trusted, shared knowledge layer no commercial platform can own. This gives you a public presence now and lasting authority in the systems that shape what is known.
What You Can Do with Footlight
Structure Once. Use Everywhere.
Enter people, places, organizations, and events in one place. Footlight prepares it for your own site and the wider commons.
Publish Once. Stay Connected.
Calendars, listings, and directories update automatically — consistent locally, discoverable globally.
Be Found Widely and Accurately.
Footlight ensures AI systems, search engines, and partner platforms read verified information — not guesses.
Collaborate Without Losing Control.
Presenters, artists, venues, and partners contribute to the commons while retaining authority over their own records. As more participants add and verify data, the network becomes richer, more accurate, and more valuable for everyone.
Connect to Open Knowledge Graphs.
Enrich your content with verified data from sources like Artsdata.ca ensuring it remains part of a reliable public layer outside commercial control.
Why it Matters.
Most cultural information is trapped in PDFs, buried web pages, or email archives — invisible to AI and search engines. In that vacuum, commercial platforms fill the gaps with incomplete or inaccurate data.
Footlight changes this. It gives communities tools to structure their knowledge, connect it to an open network, and keep it discoverable, accurate, and under their stewardship.
As more communities contribute, the network becomes richer and more valuable to everyone.
This is how we keep knowledge in the hands of the people who live it.
