Using CollectiveAccess, the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin, Germany, created its Lost Films portal—an online hub where users can collect, contribute and document the thousands of mostly silent-era films believed lost. The site documents these films through surviving photographs, film fragments, and other resources. CollectiveAccess is used as the central archive database for the project, with a custom-built web site front-end providing public search, browse, media display and community features.

PhilaPlace leverages the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and its partners to provide a fascinating interactive exploration of Philadelphia's neighborhoods. Stories, shared by ordinary people of all backgrounds, oral histories and historical images and films are connected to locations across time. With the help of CollectiveAccess' georeferencing tools and tight integration with GoogleMaps, the site offers an intuitive map-based interface as a primary means of navigation. Visitors are actively encouraged to contribute their own stories, photos and films to the site using friendly web-based forms. PhilaPlace consists of a custom public web site, developed by Night Kitchen Interactive, connected to the standard CollectiveAccess database and cataloguing application, which is used to manage both partner and visitor contributed content.

From the fall of the Berlin Wall to German unification, East and West Germans alike captured images of the year that changed their world. Recognizing that these snapshots, home videos, and newsreel footage offered a unique view of momentous historical events, the Deutsche Kinemathek together with the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung used CollectiveAccess to create Wir Waren So Frei. This interactive website provides access to thousands of personal photographs and full-length videos, and facilitates community building by allowing users to comment, tag and create specific sets of assets for online sharing and display as full-screen slideshows. CollectiveAccess was used to implement the back-end image and video archive that is the foundation of the public web site. The Wir Waren So Frei public web site implementation is the basis for the generic Pawtucket web front-end for CollectiveAccess that will be released as open-source software in early 2010.

The Coney Island History Project is an historical society dedicated to preserving the legacy of the 125-year old New York amusement park. In its efforts to make the past more present, it has extended CollectiveAccess beyond archive management and publication. In addition to online access to photos, documents, and books, users can now listen to and search oral histories, and view maps of geo-located photographs . The users' ability to comment, tag and create sets of assets further emphasizes the site's community building aspects.

Founded in 1894, the Van Alen Institute has long been a force for the promotion of architectural education in the United States. With funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the New York State Council on the Arts and others, the Institute is cataloguing its archive of architectural competition entries, programs, and jury reports ranging from 1904 through 1994. CollectiveAccess is being used to manage the cataloguing process, and to create authorities for the Institute's programs over the past century. A customized version of soon-to-be-released Pawtucket web front-end is being developed to publish the archive online in early 2010.

East End Stories is an online resource that celebrates the artists, places and events that comprise the historically productive artists colony on the East End of Long Island, New York. The site is based upon a CollectiveAccess system that integrates the Museum's proprietary collections database with extensively researched biographical and historical information. Using maps, photographs, artwork and curated tours presented by a custom web front-end the site makes it easy to navigate the many inter-relationships between artists and their friends, spouses, peers and patrons, as well as the places and events that influenced them. The Museum also employs separate CollectiveAccess-based systems to provide online access to its collections database, and to publish its audio programs.

Northeast Historic Films is a regional film archive dedicated to preserving moving images relating to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. The collections encompass a wide variety of material, from local television newscasts to some of the earliest known color footage of Gandhi. NHF also houses one of the largest collections of amateur film in North America. NHF uses CollectiveAccess to automate a previously manual accession process; to manage collection-level records for the hundreds of discrete collections housed by NHF; and to manage tens of thousands of item-level records previously housed in a legacy system. A collection and item-level search and faceted browse interface is in development and will be a part of the NHF's new public web site, coming in 2010.

Committed to illustrating recent Jewish history via individual experiences, the Museum of Jewish Heritage—a Living Memorial to the Holocaust uses CollectiveAccess to publish highlights from its powerful and moving collection of stories, faces and objects online. The Online Collection won Museums and the Web's 2009 Best of the Web Award.

CollectiveAccess is used by the National September 11th Memorial and Museum to accession, catalogue and manage a fast-growing collection of objects and digital assets related to the events of September 11th, 2001, and to support the exhibition design process for the museum now under construction at the World Trade Center site. In addition, a separate CollectiveAccess system is used by contractors to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to maintain a catalogue of objects—everything from signage to multi-ton structural elements—salvaged from the World Trade Center site.