burwellvillage.org.uk

burwellvillage.org.uk is the website for Burwell, a Cambridgeshire village. On the surface it's an ordinary community site — a what's-on listing, local news, the usual civic furniture — with its own look, sharing the framework that runs the rest of this portfolio but showing none of it. Underneath it's an attempt at a duller, more universal problem: in a village, the information about what's happening is real but scattered — a parish-council page, a printed magazine, a poster in a shop window, a club's own site — and most of it is out of date by the time you find it.

The project is the machinery that fills the listing. Rather than wait for someone to type events in by hand, the site takes them from wherever they already live: a photo of a poster, a local organisation's website, a calendar feed, the community magazine's PDF. Each source is parsed — increasingly by AI — into a draft event or news item that a person checks before it goes live. The goal is a what's-on that's genuinely current, kept that way with as little manual entry as the sources allow.

It's for residents who just want to know what's on this weekend, and it doubles as a working test of a harder problem: turning messy real-world local information into clean, structured data. The public site and its custom front-end are live; the capture lanes are at different stages — poster submission and AI parsing work, a news section is deployed, web and calendar scanning are being built out. It's in the oven — enough is running to be useful, with the fully-automatic version still being assembled.