News and Events
Announcing the Release of CollectionSpace v2.0
12/19/2011 - 19:23
Angela Spinazze

The CollectionSpace team is pleased to announce the release of CollectionSpace version 2.0. This release is the culmination of a year-long team effort to improve functionality, lessen the complexity of creating new functionality, and to provide greater support for implementers of stand-alone installations and their in-house development staff.

New user-facing functionality includes: Roles and permissions enforcement; media handling; hierarchical vocabularies; import/export; reporting; advanced search; and structured dates. A few of the highlights are below.

Media Handling:...

CollectionSpace Services Architecture Update
10/28/2011 - 14:21
Angela Spinazze

The CollectionSpace team is pleased to announce a major upgrade of the CollectionSpace Services Architecture in conjunction with the integration of the highly anticipated release of version 5.5 of the Nuxeo Enterprise Platform (scheduled for release in mid-November 2011).

The Nuxeo Enterprise Platform provides repository and content management services as a key component of the CollectionSpace framework. In the past year, Nuxeo have changed their recommended default configuration from the JBoss platform to a leaner stack based just upon Apache and Tomcat. Accordingly, and to...

CollectionSpace Release 1.8.2 is available for download
07/21/2011 - 17:25
MMI_Megan

The CollectionSpace project team is pleased to announce that CollectionSpace Version 1.8.2 is available for download. This updated release allows CollectionSpace to be used with Internet Explorer 8, and fixes an issue that under certain configurations could cause Nuxeo to be unable to authenticate to its database.

This release can be downloaded via: https://source.collectionspace.org/collection-space/src/services/...

CollectionSpace Release 1.8 is available for download.
07/13/2011 - 10:52
MMI_Megan

The CollectionSpace team is pleased to announce the release of CollectionSpace Version 1.8.

This release adds support for media handling, hierarchical vocabularies, storage location authority, delete, import, export, and groups. Significant changes under the hood include improvements to performance, increased support for localization, simplification of configuration, and upgrade of the core platform to use PostgreSQL. Initial development work in support of batch processing was started. Development efforts also included increased support for multi-tenancy, or the means by which a...

CollectionSpace at AAM
04/15/2011 - 10:02
MMI_Megan

Join the project leads of CollectionSpace, Pachyderm, Omeka, and Open Exhibits at the American Association of Museum's Annual Meeting for an introduction to "open source" and a frank discussion of the promises and pitfalls of open source software in the museum.

The presentation is currently scheduled for Wednesday, May 25th. Check out the full program online.

CollectionSpace Release 1.3 is available for download.
01/21/2011 - 11:54
pazmadry

The CollectionSpace team is pleased to announce the release of CollectionSpace 1.3, which is now available for download. This new release builds on CollectionSpace 1.0 by adding the Object Exit procedure, new fields in the Cataloging procedure, repeatable fields and repeatable groups of fields, User Roles and Permissions, many critical bugs, and full regression QA testing. Additionally, developers will be able to take advantage of the integration with Jasper Reports to write CollectionSpace reports. In the future, report generation will be...

Announcing the Release of CollectionSpace 1.0
11/10/2010 - 12:32
pazmadry

The CollectionSpace team is pleased to announce the release of CollectionSpace 1.0. This release is the culmination of eight releases of our web-based, open source, collections information management software. CollectionSpace supports a set of core activities that are at the heart of professional practice for those who manage collections and the information that is generated over the lifecycle of collections ownership and care. These core activities - including acquisition, deaccession, loans, movement, and initial deposit - as well as the supporting functions that help make data entry...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a National Leadership Grant to advance CollectionSpace
11/08/2010 - 12:00
root

The Museum of the Moving Image, in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley Information Services and Technology Division, and the Walker Art Center, will advance CollectionSpace, an open-source collections information management software designed to answer the need for a more effective collections information and management tool. The project will allow partners to work with five diverse museum communities of practice to shape and extend CollectionSpace software to suit their diverse needs. This project will also model a new way for museums and other collecting institutions...