1. CollectiveAccess Introduction
May 2015 ANR RECIHC - Workshop
Gautier Michelin - gm@ideesculture.com

2. Full Web collections
management
physical, digital or intellectual
collections
New York Society Library

3. 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

4. History of the project

5. 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

6. 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...

7. idéesculture references with CollectiveAccess

8. 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

9. review of some public websites build with CollectiveAccess
« let's have a first look. »

10. • New School Digital Archives
http://digitalarchives.library.newschool.edu
• Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné
http://www.noguchi.org/research/catalogue
• NovaMuse
http://novamuse.ca
• Polonia
http://champeaux-polonia.montmorency-tourisme.fr/
public/
• Holocaust.cz
http://holocaust.cz

11. New School digital collections

12. Isamu Noguchi catalogue raisonné

13. NovaMuse portal to 52 museum collections in Nova Scotia (Canada)

14. Polonia map & biographies

15. Holocaust.cz archives & memorial

16. 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

17. demo database
• URL
http://morgan.univ-lemans.fr
• identifiers
contact gm@ideesculture.com

18. 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

19. thanks,
do you have any question ?