Tools for participation > Footlight CMS
Publish your organization’s knowledge in a form AI systems can read.
Your events, people, places, organizations, and works should not be reconstructed from fragments. Footlight helps you structure that information at the source, publish it to your own website, and connect it to a trusted public knowledge layer.
No technical team required.
What Footlight CMS makes possible
Structure once. Use everywhere.
Enter people, places, organizations, events, and works in one place. Footlight prepares it for your site and the wider commons automatically.
Publish from the source.
Keep your website, listings, calendars, and shared data connected and up to date.
Be read accurately by systems.
Help AI systems, search engines, and partner platforms draw from verified information. Not guesses.
Collaborate without losing control.
Let partners contribute while each organization remains accountable for its own records.
Connect to Artsdata.ca.
Link your information to a trusted public knowledge graph outside commercial platform control.
Why this matters.
Public infrastructure only works if communities participate in building it. Participation requires that contributing is accessible — not just to organizations with technical teams.
Footlight makes participation possible for any organization, any size. What you publish becomes part of the shared knowledge layer that AI systems draw from. Your knowledge. Your terms. Your authority.
This is how public infrastructure stays public.
