Full Web collections management
physical, digital or intellectual collections
New York Society Library
Main aspects
• opensource
• full web
• based on technological standard
• deployed in archives, museums, libraries with 129 public references (more than 300 estimated)
• on the 5 continents
• from the EMAK museum (250 objects) to the 9/11 museum
• from several objects to hundreds of thousands
Some dates
• 2003 : beginning of the project
• 2005 : first users
• 2007 : first public release under the name "OpenCollection"
• 2009 : version 0.6
• 2009 : Whirl-i-Gig, established in New-York
• 2011 : version 1.0
idéesculture
• one of the regular developers of the project, french is the only language to have translated parts of documentation (docs.collectiveaccess.org)
• funded by 3 former consultants, coming from an opensource project for libraries & documentation centers
• 2011 : full french version
• 2012 : idéesculture
• all we do is under GPL
• 2013 : french version of the main website (has to be rebuilt since collectiveaccess.org has a new design)
• 2014 : idéesculture & CA are now registered by the French Ministry for Culture as the first opensource software validated for museum collections inventory
• working with...
Type of collections• Fine art
• Film
• Technology
• Architectural design archives
• Costumes & clothing
• Anthropology & ethnographic collections
• Biodiversity conservation (photographs)
• Oral history
• Exhibition asset management
• Corporate archives
• Photography
• Historical societies
• Libraries
Hennessy - flacon Paradis Impérial
• New School Digital Archives http://digitalarchives.library.newschool.edu
• Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonnéhttp://www.noguchi.org/research/catalogue
• NovaMusehttp://novamuse.ca
• Polonia http://champeaux-polonia.montmorency-tourisme.fr/public/
• Holocaust.czhttp://holocaust.cz
access to a test database built on UK Red metadata structure
« let's go deeper inside the database... »
Gaston is an archivist with a personal view on archive management. Belgian Comics Center - illustration : Gaston Lagaffe by Franquin
want to know more on CollectiveAccess ?CollectiveAccess
• collectiveaccess.org : forums, wiki & documentation
• whirl-i-gig on linkedin & @CollAccess on twitter
• github.com/collectiveaccess
idéesculture
• www.ideesculture.com
• idéesculture on facebook, twitter & linkedin
• plugin for CA on wordpress.org
• www.lescollections.fr (online collections management for private owners with CA)
• www.visitenumerique.com (audio/videoguide for exhibitions based on Tap : tapintomuseums.org, digital asset management with CollectiveAccess)
• github.com/ideesculture
Musée Rodin - moulage
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