GLAM IT Systems

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YOUR DATA - YOUR WAY

Collection Management Systems that are tailored to you and your collections

Project Services

GLAM IT can handle a full collection management system project migration, or step in to fill particular gaps in an existing plan.

We specialise in designing and creating IT systems for cultural and natural collections covering collection and archival collection management, digital preservation. To ensure your collections are discoverable we also enable publishing your collections online.

Along with the usual project enabling tasks we also offer services in the folowing spaces.

Planning & Scoping

  • Business & requirement analysis
  • Database design
  • Infrastructure design

Development & Customisation

  • Integrations
  • Theme customisations
  • Plugin development

Data Services

  • Data cleansing
  • Data migration
  • Metadata & media importing

Other

  • Application customisation & configuration
  • Accessibility testing
  • Training and documentation
  • Appication installation and optimisation

BENEFITS OF WORKING WITH US

  • Local support
  • Hosting within Australia
  • No vendor lockin - Open Source
  • Fully managed or self hosted
  • Personalised service
  • Our staff have many years experience within the GLAM industry

"Medeopolis [GLAM IT] are excellent partners in hosting our Collection Management System.
We can always rely on Monica and Karl's technical knowledge and experience to supply quick, clear and optimal solutions to complex issues."

Jeff Schneider, Australian Jewish Historical society

Collection Management

Our Collection Management platform is suited to a range of cultural collections and organisations and is built directly on the open source application CollectiveAccess.

CollectiveAccess provides a cataloguing backend and a public display frontend which can be configured to suit your organisations requirements. Housing many large collections CollectiveAccess is scalable and widely use in North America (for example by the American Museum of Natural History and Association of Nova Scotia Museums).

GLAM IT aims to make CollectiveAccess available to organisations in Australia and New Zealand through projects and managed hosting solutions.

Features of CollectiveAccess include:

  • Fully customisable and configurable
  • Regularly security tested
  • Integrate with other systems via an API
  • Can support almost any collection type
  • No vendor lock in
  • Extensible via plugins
  • Extremely flexible in its data storage and data modelling

"We are delighted with CollectiveAccess which meets Special Collections needs and surpassed our expectations"

Special Collections, UNSW Canberra
Sound interesting? Check out a Demo or Contact us to learn more

OTHER SYSTEMS

We provide services around a number of other applications, carefully selected for filling a need in the GLAM space.

Digital Preservation (Archivematica)

Archivematica is an integrated suite of open-source software tools that allows users to process digital objects from ingest to access (source: Archivematica website)

Web publishing
(Omeka S)

Omeka S is a next-generation web publishing platform for institutions interested in connecting digital cultural heritage collections with other resources online. (source: Omeka S website)

Content Management
(Wagtail)

Wagtail is … fast, elegant, and designed to give everyone on your team the tools they need to manage content at enterprise scale (source: Wagtail website)

Powered by open source

Open source software means the software is freely available without needing to pay for a licence. However, this usually means the recipient needs to install and manage it themself and this can make open source software out of reach for many. This is where GLAM IT™ comes in, making these amazing resources accessible to more organisations like yours.

ABOUT US

We are 100% Australian owned and operated. We are proud to contribute to open source projects and to be able to offer these solutions to the GLAM community right here in Australia.

GLAM IT staff have experience working with many industries including Archives, Museums, Universities, Historical Societies, Reference libraries, and more!

Our team brings a range of project enabling experiences in:

  • Business analysis
  • Data analysis
  • Data migration
  • GLAM sector experience
  • Research sector experience
  • Knowledge of relevant standards

Frequently Asked Questions

At this time we do not provide demos for any applications supported by GLAM IT however most of the upstream providers do.
Click through to access CollectiveAccess, Omeka S, Archivematica and Access to Memory demo/sandbox

In most cases data/metadata can be migrated, as long as:
  • the structure is understood
  • the data can be exported
  • the data can be accessed
  • sufficient time is committed to cleaning and standardising before attempting an import.
Depending on your requirements GLAM IT will be able to assist during a migration project.

GLAM IT Collection Management platform is able to ensure only people allowed to see particular records can. Our system has extensive controls covering users and groups which manage their ability to access objects, metadata and functions.

Yes we can! GLAM IT provide a fully managed service for customers unable to host internally.
We understand that not everyone can host their own CMS so we have several offerings in this space for medium to large collections.
Not a large collection? We are actively working on an ‘as-a-service’ offering which we hope will become available early next year

No we do not, all our solutions are released under Open Source Initiative approved licences.

Basic support is available to all customers hosted in our environment.
Extra support or support for self hosted installations is available from GLAM IT systems, with the cost dependent on project requirements, number of hours purchased, and other factors.

CONTACT US

Thanks for your interest! If you’d like to contact us to enquire or discuss a possible project please reach out to hello@glamit.systems and we’ll be glad to be in touch.