Put your data to work for you with beautiful, fast and functional online collections, driven by best-in-class data aggregation middleware.
Our collections online module is driven by Knowledge Integration’s CIIM, which is used by more than nine national museums including The Science Museum, The British Museum, National Gallery and Imperial War Museum. We’ve used CIIM technology to create a platform, making the core technology available to museums of all shapes and sizes.
How it works:
- We ingest your collections records from any format you provide: MODES, CSV, EMu, AdLib and more
- We automatically process media including zooms,
- We augment with additional contextual data if require .(including AI and human-create)
.. and then we’re ready to go.
There’s no upper or lower limit to the number of collections records that we can ingest and host, and whether it’s a hundred or a million records, you get access to the same technology.
Users get lightning-fast search, facets to narrow down their queries, URLs for records that they can share, machine-readable object representations, and much more.
Start with our standard design or make your own. Use your existing WordPress site or one created and hosted by us. Present your data in custom ways, online and in-gallery too.
If you already have a website, we can integrate the Museum Platform into it. We can do that with embeds, a plugin or standalone collections pages. You decide what works best for you.
Collection features
Collections management systems aren’t great for writing or formatting web-ready content. This is one reason why we offer a way for you to enrich the record pages for your collections by merging the database record with content you make within WordPress – let us show you some examples!
Your users can put together their own sets of favourites from your collections, for their exclusive use or to share with others – we also have a set of tools to let you embed these collections elsewhere, and show them in different views. And privacy has been put right at the heart: the whole system is built to let people log in without passing you any personal data, removing all of the worry and hassle of GDPR compliance. The centralised mechanism we’ve built can even support other kinds of user generated content, so if you have another challenge in mind – annotating images, tagging content and so on – talk to us about expanding the system to support that too.
We make zoomable versions of all your images (if they’re big enough), which are delivered from a IIIF server, meaning that you can do all sorts of cool things to remix them with other images. Read about IIIF here
If you can supply latitude and longitude pairs in your data – to record, for example, where an item was made – we can use these to show a map with a record, or to plot search results (depending on your theme). You can also use our WordPress map block using object records picked by hand or returned with a search.
You can provide your collections data in various ways. In most cases using our shared CIIM is appropriate, in which case we can pull your data out of the Museum Data Service, or it can be supplied as a spreadsheet for us to import. MDS is the preferred option, but if that’s not viable for you we can explain to you the requirements for a spreadsheet import. This is also a good option for record-sets that are not from museums at all.
If you have more specific needs for your collections data then your own CIIM is the obvious solution. Several TMP clients do this, giving them enormous flexibility and power. Here are some of the use-cases that this approach could support:
- live connection to your collections management system
- an unusually detailed data model
- complex/unique search requirements
- non-object records and authorities
bespoke AI pipeline for data enrichment