Working with (and around) external data sources to create www.kotuia.org.nz

Have you ever had to build a Wagtail CMS where most of the content comes from an external source? What about two? What about two that really should be linked together, but aren’t? In this talk, we’ll explore ways to combine multiple external data sources and augment them to fit in seamlessly with a Wagtail CMS.

Using the case study of www.kotuia.org.nz, a centralized online whare taonga and museum collections aggregator for Aotearoa New Zealand, we’ll explain how we managed to combine external sources with managed content to produce a cohesive user experience.

We’ll explore:
1) combining external sources with managed content to produce a cohesive experience
2) combining multiple external sources that are linked, when you can’t make a copy of the data for licensing issues
3) augmenting external data sources
4) managing crowdsourced content with variable quality and data structures, and display it in a consistent way

We will also touch on:
5) what compromises to make when your external data source doesn’t have content in the language you need
2) content caching: how to respect data sovereignty while serving content efficiently.


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