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Key to Codes:
PRO – Promoters / Organisers
ART – Artists / Venues
VIS – Visitors / Public
FUN – Funders / Councils
Culture Reverb is a cultural memory system that captures and preserves live event information in real time. It records details of events, artists, and venues and makes them available as a permanent, public, searchable archive on the open web.
Event information often disappears from the web after a few years. What remains is scattered and difficult to locate. This loss reduces cultural value, weakens community connection, and limits funding and marketing opportunities. Culture Reverb provides a permanent, connected presence for events, artists, and venues.
Culture Reverb connects publicly available event information with material submitted directly by users. It processes this into structured formats and presents it on dedicated webpages, linking performances, venues, and related material into an interconnected archive.
Culture Reverb is led by John McKiernan and Graham Klyne, supported by collaborators with experience in arts innovation, data systems, and public engagement.
It was created to capture cultural activity as it happens and make it part of an enduring public archive, supporting artists, venues, and communities through accessible long-term data.
Culture Reverb does not take ownership of user data. Information is published openly in formats that can be exported and reused. Viewing does not require sign-in, and only minimal administrative data is stored.
No. Culture Reverb is not a generative AI platform. While AI tools may assist with internal tasks, the service itself is built on established open web standards.
No. Culture Reverb is being developed in stages. The current version is fully operational and demonstrates the core publishing infrastructure and archive model, with additional data control and hosting features under development.
Yes. Culture Reverb can be configured to connect venues, promoters, artists, and events within a defined town, district, or region. This provides a publicly accessible cultural overview for that location. Structured area-wide implementations are available through modest partnership contributions.
Yes. Culture Reverb is particularly suited to festivals and multi-day programmes involving multiple venues and artists.
All performances can be connected within a single structured overview, allowing audiences to see the full programme clearly in one place while linking each event to its associated artists, venues, and organisers.
Culture Reverb can also be embedded within a festival’s own website in a white-label format, appearing seamlessly within the festival’s existing design while remaining part of the wider open archive.
Yes. Depending on the scale of implementation, Culture Reverb can be embedded within an organisation’s own website so that it appears seamlessly within their existing design.
This allows organisations to retain their own branding while benefiting from the underlying publishing and archive infrastructure.
Events can be added through a short online form. A dedicated webpage is then published. Future integrations will allow compatible systems to send event data directly.
Artists and venues can submit their details through online forms, which generate or update a dedicated webpage with a unique address.
The current prototype publishes structured information drawn from publicly available sources and submitted material.
In the fully operational version, connections between event, artist, promoter, and venue pages will be created dynamically. Certain connections will require approval before appearing, and ownership of contributed material remains with the original contributor.
Yes, subject to storage limits. Additional storage may incur a cost.
In many cases, media will be linked or streamed from existing publicly available sources rather than stored directly within Culture Reverb.
Yes. External media links can be added so they appear alongside your entry.
During the current development phase, submissions are reviewed manually before publication.
When fully live, approved content will appear immediately.
You retain ownership. By submitting content, you grant Culture Reverb a licence to publish it solely for delivering the service.
Yes. Cultural information is publicly accessible while private administrative data is protected.
Public data is stored in open formats. Private administrative data is kept to a minimum and stored securely.
Yes. Data can be exported or copied to a chosen location.
Page owners are responsible for approving their own entries. A process exists for correcting errors.
Culture Reverb uses simple, standards-based web technologies to maximise accessibility across devices and assistive tools. Improvements continue as development progresses.
No. Culture Reverb is not funded through advertising and does not rely on behavioural tracking of visitors.
Yes. Past performances and historical programmes can be added to build a permanent public record.
If you stop updating your page, published information remains available as part of the archive. You may request deletion of your webpage at any time.
Machine-readable data can be taken and shared with another provider.
Yes. You can request deletion. Connected items uploaded by others remain on their respective pages under their control.
In certain cases, yes. If a promoter or venue publishes an event, publicly visible details such as artist names, dates, and locations may automatically appear as listings on connected pages.
Other types of content require approval before appearing. Culture Reverb does not include a public comments or review system.
No. Culture Reverb is not designed as a review platform.
Future versions may allow links to external articles or published reviews, but there are no plans to introduce open comment sections.
The current version publishes webpages as static HTML that can be hosted on any standard web server. The project is being developed with long-term continuity in mind, including greater participant control over the data they create.
No. Event pages link directly to the ticket provider chosen by the organiser. Culture Reverb takes no commission.
Culture Reverb is infrastructure, not a ticketing intermediary. By linking directly and taking no commission, it avoids adding another layer between the audience and the event.
Yes. Every artist, promoter, organiser, and venue can have a free general page.
Those who wish to manage and update their own page can choose an annual support contribution.
For those joining now, access runs through to 31 May 2027.
Individuals and grassroots bands or collectives — £10 (or pay what you can)
Grassroots promoters — £25 (or pay what you can)
Grassroots venues or collectives — £50 (or pay what you can)
Established venues — £80
Small, well-established promoters — £80
A Pay Forward option is available for those able to contribute more.
We hope not. Our intention is to keep contributions as low as possible and increase them only if absolutely necessary.
Yes. You can make a direct donation using the support button.
For those who wish to participate more formally, Culture Reverb is currently raising early-stage investment that may convert into shares in a future funding round.