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thousands of personal photographs and full-length videos documenting the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Configuration Library

Listed below are a selection of user-contributed installation profiles. Some are based on standards and some are completely custom; all were designed to meet the functional requirements of real-world projects. Even if none of the profiles in the library can be used "out-of-the-box" for your project, some may provide development ideas and useful points of departure for your own profile. Before attempting to decipher the profiles presented here be sure to familiarize yourself with the profile syntax, as described in the Building System Installation Profiles manual.

Note that the profiles listed here are not intended as exemplars of "good design." Many employ sub-optimal metadata and user interface structures in order to accommodate various legacy and project-specific requirements. They are presented merely as examples of how previous users have approached systems design for their particular discipline. Your mileage may vary.

To use a profile listed here with your copy of CollectiveAccess download the desired profile and copy it into the profiles directory of the installer (Eg. /install/profiles). After reloading the installer start page the newly installed profile should appear in the profiles drop-down menu.

We encourage you to contribute your own profiles to the library! The more profiles we can share, the easier it will be for new users to get started with CollectiveAccess. If you want to post your profile here contact us at support@CollectiveAccess.org.

Art Museums
Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI USA
Collections management for an art gallery.
Metadata StandardsObject TypesOccurrence Types
-none- artworks events
Historical Societies and Museums
Coney Island History Project, Brooklyn, NY USA
Artifact and oral history database for a historical society.
Metadata StandardsObject TypesOccurrence Types
-none- documents, interviews, motion pictures, objects, photographs, and postcards, with hierarchical sub-types. events, exhibitions, bibliographies
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Profile for custom cultural heritage digital image collection.
Metadata StandardsObject TypesOccurrence Types
dublin core items, hierarchically nested within series/box/volume events
Limerick City Museum, Limerick, Ireland
Museum collections catalogue.
Metadata StandardsObject TypesOccurrence Types
-none- collections objects exhibitions, publications
Queens Memory Project, Queens NY USA
A profile that combines elements of many different standards for a diverse collection of multimedia and oral histories.
Metadata StandardsObject TypesOccurrence Types
-none- maps, documents, news clippings, oral histories, wild sounds, images events
Institutional Archives
New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, NY USA
Institutional archive for digital preservation of program documentation for an art museum.
Metadata StandardsObject TypesOccurrence Types
dublin core collections, datasets, events, images, interactive resources, moving images, physical objects, services, software, sounds, texts exhibitions, public programs, education initiatives, publications
Roundabout Theater Company, New York, NY USA
Digital archive for a theatre company.
Metadata StandardsObject TypesOccurrence Types
-none- documents, news clippings, merchandise, costumes, props, and media, with hierarchical sub-types stage productions, play readings, galas, opening nights, special events, student productions
White Columns, New York, NY, USA
Archive for an art gallery.
Metadata StandardsObject TypesOccurrence Types
-none- images, moving images, documents, sounds, invitations, and posters with hierarchical sub-types programs, publications with hierarchical sub-types
Mixed Collections
Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin, Germany: Camera Collection
Profile for the camera collections of the Deutsche Kinemathek
Metadata StandardsObject TypesOccurrence Types
-none- documents, equipment productions, exhibitions
Port Authority of New York & New Jersey: Hangar 17 Collection
Implements a system for description, tracking and deaccession of a mixed collection of objects.
Metadata StandardsObject TypesOccurrence Types
-none- objects events
Moving Images and Time-based Media
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Hollywood, CA USA
Development platform for preservation workflows for digital film.
Metadata StandardsObject TypesOccurrence Types
PBCore, PREMIS moving images, supporting assets works
Anthology Film Archives, NY USA
Collection management system for film archive.
Metadata StandardsObject TypesOccurrence Types
-none- audio, films, paper documents, photographs, videos productions
Oorlog in Blik Project, Amsterdam, Holland
Film and sound database.
Metadata StandardsObject TypesOccurrence Types
dublin core films, sounds events
Natural History Collections
PaleoPortal, UC Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, California, USA
A system for cataloguing fossil egg shells.
Metadata StandardsObject TypesOccurrence Types
-none- specimens events