Collections management

A catalog worthy of the collection

Museum-grade records, kept current through a simple admin.

A real catalog, not another spreadsheet

Museum-grade records underneath, a simple admin on top.

  • A simple admin

    Your team publishes through it. Changes go live without a ticket.

  • Condition assessments

    Lifecycle timelines and assessments live with the work, not in a binder.

  • Open-data connected

    Reads your city's open data, so civic geography stays current on its own.

One record of truth for every work

Structured attribution, lifecycle timelines, and condition assessments: the record a registrar would expect, behind a public page a visitor would love.

A list of artwork records in the admin dashboard

Built to be trusted with a collection

Standards underneath, approvals in front, and the exit always open.

  • Museum-grade records

    Controlled vocabularies and structured attribution, modeled on CDWA/CCO, SPECTRUM, and the Getty vocabularies.

  • Approved before it publishes

    Community contributions land in a moderation queue. Nothing goes public without your team's sign-off.

  • Yours, in full

    We don't hold your collection hostage. Export every record, any time.

Every record has a public life

The catalog your team keeps is the guide your city explores. Publish a record and it becomes the artwork's public page, with its photos, story, and pin on the map.

See the interactive map →
An artwork's public page in the Calgary guide

What museum-grade earns you

Structured records do quiet work everywhere the collection appears.

  • Cited by search and AI assistants

    Every published record is a server-rendered page with structured data. Search engines and AI assistants can find and cite each work.

  • Filters that hold up

    Controlled vocabularies keep artists, mediums, and neighbourhoods consistent, so every filter in the guide returns the full picture.

  • Artist credit that travels

    Attribution is structured into the record, not typed into a caption. Every work names its maker wherever it appears.

Proven on a whole city's collection

Calgary Arts Development runs the city's mixed collection on this catalog. It reads City of Calgary open data and covers artworks in every ward.

Read the Calgary case study →

You publish, we operate

Onboarding is a scoped service, not a setup wizard.

  • Done-for-you migration

    Wherever your collection is, that's where we start. Spreadsheets, PDFs, and open datasets become structured, standards-based records during onboarding.

  • Operated for years, not a season

    We host, maintain, and improve the guide after launch. Your team keeps publishing, and there are real people to call.

FAQs

We already have a spreadsheet and an open dataset. Is that wasted work?

No. It's a head start. The guide reads municipal open data instead of competing with it, and your records build on what you already have.

What standards do the records follow?

Records are modeled on museum documentation standards: CDWA/CCO, SPECTRUM, and the Getty vocabularies, with controlled vocabularies and structured attribution.

Can we export our catalog?

In full, at any time. Your catalog is yours. We don't hold your collection hostage.

Who keeps the records current?

Your team, through a simple admin. Publishing a change doesn't need a developer or a ticket.

Does it handle condition and lifecycle information?

Yes. Condition assessments and lifecycle timelines live with each work's record, not in a binder.

Ready for a catalog people can visit?