How it is built ·
The wire now relays what institutions publish themselves
Four Cypriot organisations publish a feed. The wire carries their headlines, their links and their dates, and adds nothing.
Written by this site about itself. There is no byline because there is no reporter.
Anything on this site about what a real institution is doing now comes from that institution’s own feed. Four of the organisations in the guide publish one: NiMAC, Thkio Ppalies, The Edit Gallery and Diachroniki Gallery.
The relay is deliberately incapable of editorialising. It takes a headline, a link and the publication date, decodes the HTML entities, and passes the rest through untouched. Nothing is summarised, re-headlined or translated, because each of those would put our words in somebody else’s mouth while still carrying their name.
It also never claims an exhibition is open. A feed entry is an announcement with a date on it, and that is exactly how it is shown. Items older than 180 days drop off on their own, so the wire empties rather than going quietly stale, and every source’s last-reached time is published so a reader can see when a source stopped answering.
Each source is polled once every six hours with a conditional request and an identifying user agent, so any operator who would rather we did not can stop us with one line in their robots file or their server config.