Providence is the back-end cataloguing and collections management component of CollectiveAccess. It provides a configurable web-based environment for describing, managing, and tracking complex digital and physical collections.
The software is designed for museums, archives, libraries, research organisations, and other institutions. It supports numerous metadata standards, data types, and media formats, including documents, images, audio, video, and 3D content.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Manage and catalogue digital and physical collections.
- Configure metadata fields, record types, relationships, and workflows.
- Support for museum, archival, library, and research metadata standards.
- Manage documents, images, audio, video, and 3D media.
- Track provenance, object locations, and other changes over time.
- Built-in search with hierarchical indexing and support for non-Roman text.
- Import data from formats including Dublin Core XML, METS, MODS, SQLite, and iDigBio.
- Create configurable reports and process large exports in the background.
- Export BagIt packages for integration with digital preservation systems.
- GraphQL API offering search, browsing, introspection, and editing functionality.
- Synchronise data between two or more CollectiveAccess installations.
- Extract embedded media metadata using MediaInfo and ExifTool.
- Automate transcription of audio and video using OpenAI Whisper.
- Integrate with Pawtucket2 to publish searchable public-facing collection websites.
Website: github.com/collectiveaccess/providence
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Developer: Whirl-i-Gig
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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