Welcome to the CollectiveAccess Support Wiki!

CollectiveAccess 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. It is not simple photo gallery software. If you are looking for convenient software with which to post albums of personal photos there are several fine choices.

CollectiveAccess is intended as an alternative to expensive proprietary software solutions that have traditionally been used for collections cataloguing and publishing by museums, archives, libraries and other organizations. CollectiveAccess is open-source software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

Support for the development of CollectiveAccess has been provided through various partner organizations by:

• Kulturstiftung des Bundes/German Federal Cultural Foundation
• Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/German Center for Political Study
• Davis Family Foundation, Falmouth, ME (USA)
• The Durst Organization, New York, NY (USA)
• Institute of Museum and Library Services (USA)
• New York State Council on the Arts (USA)
• The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (USA)

This wiki contains various FAQs, tutorials and articles to help you get your copy of CollectiveAccess installed and running and to keep it that way. As we get closer to a version 1.0 release of CollectiveAccess, the information contained in this wiki will be assembled into a formal manual. Until we reach that point, however, the best sources for technical support are this wiki and the support forum. If all else fails, you can contact the primary developers at support@collectiveaccess.org. We will do our best to be responsive!