Description
Tainacan is an open-source, powerful and flexible digital repository platform for WordPress. Manage and publish your digital collections just as easily as you post to your blog, having all the tools of a professional repository platform. It can be used for the creation of a digital collection, a digital library or a digital repository for your institutional or personal collection.
Tainacan aims to facilitate the activities of organizing, documenting, disseminating and displaying digital objects based on simple and accessible principles of digital curation. The plugin integrates with the WordPress block engine, making it easy to reuse objects for different and varied uses. You can manage and publish your digital collections as easily as posting to your blog. It is versatile and can be used to create a digital collection, a digital library or a digital repository for your institutional or personal collection.
Features
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“Metadata and Filters”: Use a metadata standard or choose whatever set of metadata you want to describe the items in your collections. Also, choose which metadata will be used as a filter when browsing collections.
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“Faceted Search”. Browse your collection (and let the public browse it) using a faceted search interface with the filters you have chosen.
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“Manage Taxonomies”: Manage vocabularies that can be used across all your collections.
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“Themes”: The Tainacan plugin has its own default theme, which helps you to showcase your collections beautifully and effectively. But it can also work with any WordPress theme, so interface developers can easily add Tainacan-specific features to an existing theme.
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“API and Interoperability”: Tainacan implements a RESTful API (read and write) to allow other applications to interact with your repository. That way, you can expose your collection in different formats, such as JSON, CSV, HTML and others. If your collection has a specific set of metadata, you can map this metadata to match the patterns you want to use.
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“Gutenberg blocks”: Tell stories with your collections. Tainacan offers you several Gutenberg blocks so you can present your collections to the public in many different ways!
Getting Started
After installation, you will see a new menu item in your admin panel called “Tainacan”. Click on it to open the Tainacan admin interface.
To get an overview of the main concepts of Tainacan, please visit this page.
Create a collection
Click “New Collection” to create a new collection, use a mapping standard or import it using one of our importers.
Configure your collection
Navigate to the top menu to set your collection up. Create the metadata that items in this collection will have, and choose, from these metadata, which ones are going to be used as a filter.
Add items
Back to the “Items” screen, click “Add new” to create a new item.
Manage and browse your collection
Through this admin interface, you can manage your collection and browse its items using the faceted search interface or advanced search interface.
If you want to visit your collections on the public side of your site, using your current theme, visit https://your-site/collections and you will get the list of your collections.
Set up Taxonomies
You can also have metadata as taxonomies, which you can configure with a set of hierarchical terms of your own vocabulary.
Add links to your menu
Edit your menu and links directly to your collections. Click “Screen options” at the top of the Edit Menu page and enable “Collections”.
If you want to add a link to the list of collections, click the “View all” tab on the Collections box on the left, and then add the first item named “Collections” to the menu.
Faceted search in your theme
To have a fully-featured faceted search in your theme, you can either make it compatible with a few templates or use our Faceted Search Block.
Find out more
- Visit our official website: https://tainacan.org/
- Contribute to the source code: https://github.com/tainacan/tainacan
- Check our documentation Wiki: https://wiki.tainacan.org/
Screenshots
Manage your repository 
Set up your collection 
Choose the metadata and filters for your collection 
Add items described by your metadata 
Set up your item as a file, link or text and attach many types of documents 
Browse your collections with a faceted search interface 
Navigate through the rich filtering interface 
Explore more with Advanced Search 
Set up Taxonomies to be used across your repository 
Bulk edit as many items as you need quickly 
Expose your collection using Tainacan default theme 
Use Gutenberg blocks to display your collections in posts and pages 
Choose which items will be displayed in your block 
Items displayed using a Gutenberg block
Blocks
This plugin provides 20 blocks.
- Tainacan Item Metadata The item metadata, including their labels and values.
- Tainacan Items List Expose items from your Tainacan collections
- Tainacan Item Metadata Sections The metadata sections, including their labels and metadata whitin it.
- Tainacan Faceted Search A full items list faceted search from either the repository, a collection or a term.
- Tainacan Related Items List A set of lists to display items related to a certain item via relationship metadata.
- Tainacan Facets List List facets from a Tainacan Collection or Repository
- Tainacan Item Metadata Section A single metadata section, including its label and metadata whitin it.
- Tainacan Terms List Expose terms from your Tainacan taxonomies
- Tainacan Item Metadatum A single item metadatum, including a label and its value.
- Tainacan Collections List Expose collections from your Tainacan repository
- Tainacan Item Submission Form A public item submission form, to allow visitors to create items drafts.
- Tainacan Item Media Gallery The media gallery of the item, displaying document, attachments and more.
- Tainacan Collection's Items Carousel List items on a Carousel, using search or item selection.
- Tainacan Terms Carousel List terms on a Carousel, showing their thumbnails or a preview of items.
- Tainacan Collection's Items List Dynamically list items from a Tainacan items search
- Tainacan Search Bar Set up a custom search bar to redirect to an item's list
- Tainacan Geo Coordinate Item Metadatum A single item geocoordinate metadatum, containing location information.
- Tainacan Collections Carousel List collections on a Carousel, displaying either its thumbnail or a preview of its items.
- Tainacan Metadata Section Name A metadata section label, used to identify different metadata sections.
- Tainacan Metadata Section Description A metadata section description, used to complement information about a metadata section.
Installation
Upload the files to the plugins directory and activate it. You can also install and activate directly from the admin panel.
If you have Imagick installed on your server, Tainacan will be able to automatically generate a thumbnail from your PDF files. This is desired but not required.
FAQ
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Where do I report security bugs found in this plugin?
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Please report security bugs found in the source code of the Tainacan plugin through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team will assist you with verification, CVE assignment, and notify the developers of this plugin.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Tainacan” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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