CollectiveAccess
The facts below are what the maker publishes about CollectiveAccess, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From CollectiveAccess's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| CollectiveAccess | Free | Free and open-source software · consulting and hosting available separately |
The facts
Each one read from CollectiveAccess's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Access controls
- It supports user- or group-specific access to fields and record types, restrictions on published records and metadata, LDAP authentication, and system logs of edits.checked 12 Oct 2026
- API access
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Cataloguing
- It supports batch cataloguing and editing, imports from formats including Excel, CSV, XML, and MARC, and exports including OAI-PMH formats.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Components
- Providence is the core cataloguing application, and Pawtucket2 is an optional public web-access application for publication and discovery.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Current release
- The download page lists version 2.0.11 for both Providence and Pawtucket2.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Hosting limits
- Whirl-i-Gig says it cannot host projects developed by third parties; its hosting packages include nightly backups of data and media.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Listed integrations and information services include the Library of Congress, Getty vocabularies, BagIt, and LibreOffice-generated previews for Microsoft file formats.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The site describes use by institutions ranging from national museums to local history consortia, specialized archives, and catalogues raisonnés.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Media
- The software supports in-browser viewing and playback of images, video, audio, PDFs, and 3D scans, and can create media derivatives and watermarks on ingest.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Metadata
- It includes metadata standards such as DACS, Dublin Core, and VRA Core, and supports configurable metadata fields, interfaces, and reports.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Metadata and tagging
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Paid services
- Whirl-i-Gig offers consulting and cloud hosting; hosting is available only for projects that use its consulting services, and hosting pricing is available by contacting the provider.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Preservation
- Digital preservation features include MD5 fixity checks with email reports and automatic access derivatives for preservation media.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Publishing
- Pawtucket can provide a public website or a login-protected front end with browse filters, search, maps, timelines, and user-generated comments, tags, and ratings.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- CollectiveAccess is free, open-source software for cataloguing and publishing museum and archival collections.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- Free online support resources include documentation, a forum, and live chat; online support is provided on a best-effort basis by developers and the user community.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Supported asset types
- images,video,audio,PDFs,3D scans,Microsoft file formatschecked 20 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Approval workflows
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
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