OpenCollection 0.52

OpenCollection is a full-featured collections management and access Web application for museums, photo, etc. OpenCollection is the product of a collaboration between the Museum of the Moving Image and Whirl-i-Gig to produce a full-featured collections management and access application for museums, photo and moving-image archives and digital collections. OpenCollection is designed to handle large, heterogeneous collections that have complex cataloguing requirements and require support for a range of metadata and media formats. Unlike other collections management applications, OpenCollection is a true web-application. All cataloging, search and administrative functions are accessible via the Internet using common web-browser software, making cataloguing by distributed teams and online access to collections information simple, efficient and inexpensive. OpenCollection is intended as an alternative to expensive proprietary software solutions that have traditionally been used for collections cataloguing by museums and other collections-based organizations. OpenCollection is open-source software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The use of the GPL guarantees, in perpetuity, a users right to (a) freely use the OpenCollection software without charge, (b) freely redistribute the software and (c) freely modify the software to meet their needs or the needs of others. Any software derived from OpenCollection is similarly bound by the GPL, ensuring that the software cannot be used as the basis of a proprietary product. It is our hope that OpenCollection will help to break the dominance of proprietary software in collections management and make it possible for organizations that have lacked the resources needed to acquire such software to effectively catalogue and make accessible their collections. We also hope that OpenCollection will provide an attractive standards-based alternative to ad-hoc collections databases that many institutions tend to construct in lieu of appropriate software..

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Platforms:	Linux
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