ILUCIDARE PLAYGROUND

The information team manages and creates information systems that support the daily operations of the agency. While most of these systems are purely digital systems these days, we also maintain the agency's library and it's archives. We consider these an integral part of our information dissemination strategy... When it comes to using, maintaining and building software, we invest heavily in open source software. Until a few years ago we were a typical consumer of open source software, without contributing much ourselves. A few years ago we diverged from this path, created a Github account and started opening up software we had written that might benefit other organisations dealing with cultural heritage, other government agencies or anyone else interested in open source software... Flanders Heritage Agency is a government agency and scientific institution. We are responsible for architectural, archaeological, landscape and maritime heritage. Today we are present at the Ilucidare..