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Welcome to the CollectiveAccess Support Wiki!

CollectiveAccess is a full-featured collections management and online access application for museums, archives and digital collections. It is designed to handle large, heterogeneous collections that have complex cataloguing requirements and require support for a variety of metadata standards and media formats.

CollectiveAccess is intended as an alternative to expensive proprietary software solutions that have traditionally been used for collections cataloguing and publishing by museums, archives, libraries and other organizations. CollectiveAccess is open-source software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

This wiki contains various FAQs, tutorials and articles to help you get your copy of CollectiveAccess installed and running and to keep it that way. As we get closer to a version 1.0 release of CollectiveAccess, the information contained in this wiki will be assembled into a formal manual. Until we reach that point, however, the best sources for technical support are this wiki, the documentation library and the support forum. If all else fails, you can contact the primary developers at support@collectiveaccess.org. We will do our best to be responsive!

Not sure where to start? Try the Frequently Asked Questions page or view and Index of all pages on this wiki. If you are installing CollectiveAccess you may want to look at the installation instructions

Want to know what is different in CollectiveAccess 0.6 as compared to the venerable 0.5x branch? Take a look at the What's New page.