CollectiveAccess
This collection brings together 20 source-verified institutional cases involving CollectiveAccess: Adopted CollectiveAccess (4), Disparate records → CollectiveAccess (1), Documented implementation (4), Legacy database → CollectiveAccess (1), Legacy databases → CollectiveAccess (2), Legacy desktop systems → CollectiveAccess (1), Legacy system → CollectiveAccess (1), Legacy tools → CollectiveAccess (1), Operational adoption (2), PRIME / FileMaker → CollectiveAccess (1), Spreadsheets / siloed systems → CollectiveAccess (1), Unstructured records → CollectiveAccess (1). A migration is identified only when the source documents a predecessor or transfer; other cases are classified as implementations or operational adoptions.
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Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes — Catálogo Digital
The Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes (ANBA) provides an open digital catalogue for its documentary and artistic heritage. Its institutional “Acerca de” page says a…
Centro de Estudios Espigas (UNSAM)
The Centro de Estudios Espigas at UNSAM — one of Argentina's premier archives for the history of art — adopted the open-source CollectiveAccess to process its…
Instituto Nacional de Musicología “Carlos Vega”
The Instituto Nacional de Musicología “Carlos Vega” documents its implementation of CollectiveAccess for public access to records from its Sección Científico…
Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires
The Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires documented an active CollectiveAccess implementation by the end of 2020, using the platform for collection management and…
CSIRO — National Research Collections of Australia
CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, engaged Gaia Resources to modernise the National Research Collections of Australia (NRCA), selecting the open-source…
Public Record Office Victoria (PROV)
Public Record Office Victoria migrated its archival management from a legacy system to the open-source CollectiveAccess as part of a wider Digital Archive renewal…
UNSW Canberra Special Collections
UNSW Canberra's Special Collections built a new-generation platform on the open-source CollectiveAccess, working with the agency GLAM IT, to replace fragmented…
Erfgoed Midwest
Erfgoed Midwest is an inter-municipal heritage consortium in the Roeselare region of Flanders, Belgium, that uses the open-source CollectiveAccess for its…
Maison des Arts de Schaerbeek
As part of a 2019 modernisation programme, the Maison des Arts de Schaerbeek — a municipal arts centre in a classified 19th-century villa in Brussels — overhauled…
Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin (BBM-USP) — Arquivo BBM
The Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin at the Universidade de São Paulo documents a customized CollectiveAccess database for Arquivo BBM. Its institutional…
Squamish Nation Archives
When the Squamish Nation hired its first archivist, a foundational task was building a structured catalogue for community and institutional records that had existed…
Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (MSSA)
The Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (MSSA) in Santiago, Chile put its documentary archive online using the open-source CollectiveAccess, publishing more…
Musée du château de Mayenne
The Musée du château de Mayenne in France — a Musée de France holding a major medieval archaeological collection — migrated to the open-source CollectiveAccess with…
Münchner Stadtmuseum (City of Munich Museums)
Driven by the City of Munich's mandate to prioritise open-source software and digital sovereignty, the Münchner Stadtmuseum adopted CollectiveAccess as its internal…
Heraklion Archaeological Museum
The Heraklion Archaeological Museum in Crete — one of the world's most significant museums of Minoan art — runs its collections on the open-source CollectiveAccess,…
Inya Institute
The Inya Institute, focused on the humanities and social sciences of Myanmar, runs its digital archive on the open-source CollectiveAccess, publishing collections…
Emigration Museum in Gdynia (Muzeum Emigracji w Gdyni)
The Emigration Museum in Gdynia’s 2016 annual report describes its use of CollectiveAccess to catalogue museum holdings and provide online access through the…
National Bank of Poland, Money Centre (Centrum Pieniądza NBP)
The National Bank of Poland describes the Money Centre’s use of a CollectiveAccess system tailored to its needs for preparing collection records and substantive…
American Numismatic Society
The American Numismatic Society retired FileMaker Pro in 2025 after two decades, migrating to the open-source CollectiveAccess. Its records had originated in a…
Glenstone Museum
Glenstone, a private contemporary-art museum in Maryland, needed one system to unify distinct departments — its library, growing archives and contemporary-art…