An open source, flexible
and powerful repository
platform for creating digital
archives in WordPress.
What is Tainacan?
Tainacan is a free, open-source Brazilian solution for managing and publishing digital collections. It transforms your WordPress site into a dynamic and customizable repository, ideal for cultural institutions, research projects, and digital collections of any kind.
Why use
Tainacan?
100% Free Software 🔓
Use, copy, modify, and distribute freely. Developed by the University of Brasília (UnB), with support from UFG, IBICT, and Ibram, Tainacan is distributed under the GPLv3 license, allowing its use free of charge and with freedom for customization.
Compatible with any theme 🎨
Use the Tainacan Interface theme or adapt any other WordPress theme. Our classic theme meets the demands of most collections. But you can also try using an FSE theme, install an integration plugin with a popular theme, or adapt other themes.
Simple and intuitive management 🗂️
Create collections, define metadata, manage users, and publish your collection with ease. The WordPress dashboard allows you to create pages, user profiles, configure collections, and publish content in an organized and secure manner, with access control.
Highly Customizable 🏷️
Configure metadata, taxonomies, and filters according to your project. Create unique descriptive structures with controlled vocabularies, reusable taxonomies, and filters tailored to the needs of your collection.
Faceted Search 🔍
Offer custom filters to explore collections. You define which metadata acts as filters to facilitate user navigation by categories, dates, themes, authors, and more.
Importing and Exporting 🔄
Send bulk data and manipulate it wherever you prefer. Import bulk data from spreadsheets. Export collections in CSV, XLSX using metadata mappers such as Dublin Core and INBCM.
Interoperability and API 🌐
Access, integrate, and share your collection with the world. Tainacan offers a complete REST API, support for metadata standards such as Dublin Core, and export in formats such as JSON and CSV.
Discover soon the new features from version 1.0.0 🎉
After more than a year of development, version 1.0.0 of Tainacan brings a redesigned admin interface with more customization options, advanced plugin settings, and several improvements eagerly awaited by the community.
Showcase
In less than 10 years of existence, Tainacan has been adopted by hundreds of institutions as a solution for creating websites for their collections.
See some examples of its use.
Join our
community 👋
Tainacan is maintained by an active and open community. Join our forum! Contribute with questions, ideas, translations, testing, development, or just share your experience.
