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Collections Management and Online Exhibitions

Collections Management

  • Collective Access
    http://www.collectiveaccess.org/
    CollectiveAccess (formerly known as OpenCollection) is a full-featured collections management and online access application for museums, archives and digital collections. It is designed to handle large, heterogeneous collections that have complex cataloguing requirements and require support for a variety of metadata standards and media formats. Unlike most other collections management applications, CollectiveAccess is completely web-based.
  • Madrona
    http://madronapro.com/
    Madrona is an open source museum collections management system written for the community, by the community. Featuring an intuitive design and ground breaking media and internet integration, Madrona creates a whole new standard for collection management.
  • CollectionSpace
    http://www.collectionspace.org/
    CollectionSpace is a collaboration that brings together a variety of cultural and academic institutions with the common goal of developing and deploying an open-source, web-based software application for the description, management, and dissemination of museum collections information.

Online Exhibitions

  • Omeka
    http://omeka.org
    Omeka is a project developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Omeka allows organizations to create complex narratives and share rich collections adhering to Dublin core standards with Omeka, designed for scholars, museums, libraries, archives, and enthusiasts.
  • Pachyderm
    http://pachyderm.nmc.org/about/
    The Pachyderm 2.0 Project began as a partnership led by The New Media Consortium (NMC) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The project brought software development teams and digital library experts from six NMC universities together with counterparts from six major museums to create a new, open source authoring environment for creators of web-based and multimedia learning experiences.