KultuNaut.dk: A Danish cultural network and event calendar

Figure 6: Latest feature of KultuNaut - service by way of cellular phones (WAP)

At a very early stage, before Internet and Web were really known, a student assistant in Dina (M. Gudmand-Høyer) became, through his work, aware of the technology and the opportunities of collaboration over the Internet, and he used this experience to develop a web calendar: www.KultuNaut.dk.
Over the years 1995-99 the calendar has become the largest event database in Denmark. Based on software technology from Dina, the calendar allows for a collaboration and exchange of data with other cultural promoters. Local authorities, counties and tourist bureaus support the system, and today the calendar system is used in adjusted versions that may easily be integrated into other home pages, among these several of the largest Danish web-portals.
KultuNaut - which is not a Dina product, merely a spinoff - combines the Internet database with other media; for example the newspaper Politiken's weekly "In-Town" section is printed from the KultuNaut database and more than 50 websites make their own calendar from KultuNaut. Besides being a successful website, KultuNaut is distinguished by exploiting the Internet for a new type of collaboration to maintain and distribute data between organizations in different parts of Denmark.