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Roadmap

CollectiveAccess is a family of applications that work together to provide a seamless cataloguing, collections management and collections publishing platform. Each component serves a specific function and may be downloaded separately. This roadmap describes planned development for each component over the next 12 months.

Providence
Providence is the core cataloguing tool and database application used to manage and describe your collection. All other components rely upon the catalogue managed by Providence, so this should be the first CollectiveAccess component you download!

Version 1.1 – Released: December 2011
Version 1.1 rounds out CollectiveAccess' set of general-purpose museum collections management features and set the stage for subsequent development of discipline-specific data management and workflow modules:
  • Tool for duplicating object and authority items.
  • New zero-configuration search engine option with improved accuracy and performance over old "MysqlFulltext" engine in 1.0.
  • Data import. Creation of custom mappings from data in tab-delimited, CSV, EAD and other formats to CollectiveAccess data fields will be supported.
  • Data export. Creation of custom mappings from data in CollectiveAccess to tab-delimited, CSV, EAD and other formats will supported.
  • Improved reporting. User definable search interfaces for reports are available in the reporting interface and printable PDF output of reports are implemented.
  • OAI-PMH support. CollectiveAccess can function as an OAI provider in 1.0.
  • Additional relationships. A number of new relationships are now supported.
  • Book viewer interface. Long form documents, whether structured as self-contained PDFs, object records with many attached representations or hierarchies of objects, can now be visualized as "books" using an integrated browser-based book viewer

Version 1.2 – Expected release date: April 2012
  • Batch cataloguing tools for object and authority items.
  • Granular access control. Access to software features, specific fields and individual object records can be controlled by user or group.
  • Mapping of media-embedded metadata to CollectiveAccess fields. It is possible to map embedded metadata fields in uploaded media to CollectiveAccess attributes in 1.0.
  • File-storage service layer with Fedora and IRODS integration. A file storage programmers interface is implemented, enabling CollectiveAccess to store uploaded media, documents and associated derivatives on any medium for which a plug-in has been developed.
  • Improved tools for creating relationships.
  • Tools for e-commerce/licensing.

Pawtucket
Pawtucket is a public-access module providing a friendly web-based search and browse interface to collections data, as well as interactive functionality such as user tagging, commenting, rating and user-generated slideshows. You can use Pawtucket to easily make any sub-set of your collections data publicly available on the web.

Version 1.1 – Expected release date: January 2012
  • New zero-configuration search engine option with improved accuracy and performance over old "MysqlFulltext" engine in 1.0.
  • OpenSearch compatibility.
  • Dynamic generation of timelines from search and browse results.
  • Book viewer interface. Long form documents, whether structured as self-contained PDFs, object records with many attached representations or hierarchies of objects, can now be visualized as "books" using an integrated browser-based book viewer
  • Revised default profile design. Default theme is now easier to modify.
  • Contribute plug-in. New Contribute plug-in enables creation of catalogue records by Pawtucket users.
  • User comments. User comments may now include images.

Version 1.2 – Expected release date: April 2012
  • Printable information pages for objects and authority details. The ability to output customizable object and authority item information pages suitable for printing (in PDF format) is planned.
  • OpenSearch compatibility.
  • Dynamic generation of timelines from search and browse results.
  • Tools for e-commerce/licensing.

Tiverton
Tiverton is a simple front-end for displaying CollectiveAccess data in a map-centered user interface.

Version 1.0 – Expected release date: March 2012
  • Visualization of collections data geographically.
  • Faceted browse of collections. A configurable faceted browse leveraging authority cataloguing to provide an intuitive way to explore content.
  • Customizable "more info" panels.