s:CMS

A static site Content Management System developend and maintained by LAD: Laboratorio di Archeologia Digitale alla Sapienza

s:CMS is an easy, open source and ready-to-use content management system for generating static sites based on Gatsby.js. It also implements data-oriented components for easily connecting, displaying and analysing research data stored in databases, in flat files or remotely, in an easy, informative and efficient way: maps, searchable tables, and soon to come charts.

Our aim is to enable researchers to publish online rich data portals, by pulling the information from a wide range of sources, be them flat static files, remotely accessible services, or online databases. We try to build components — resuing as much as possible well known open source projects — to make the integration seemless and to offer a simplified workflow to securely publish contents.

Static sites are fast, secure, durable: no databases to manage, no code that gets outdated, no performace issues. Once you have build and deployed your site, you are sure it will never stop working.

What can I do with s:CMS?

You can setup in few minutes a fully working and secure website containing static pages, with text and images describing your project and also rich data pulled in real time from remote databases and or self-hosted as static files, with which you can build maps, and fully searcheable tables. You are fully enabled to customise the layout and look&feel of your site to perfectly fit your needs.

Think of s:CMS as the public, fully-customiseable front-end of your research database.