Archivematica vs Collective Access: Providence

Archivematica

Free and open-source digital preservation system designed to maintain standards-based, long-term access to collections of digital objects. (by artefactual)

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Collective Access: Providence

Cataloguing and data/media management application (by collectiveaccess)

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Archivematica		Collective Access: Providence
	Project
4	Mentions	3
404	Stars	276
1.5%	Growth	-
9.0	Activity	6.0
4 days ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
Python	Language	PHP
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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Archivematica

Posts with mentions or reviews of Archivematica. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-02.

How to make my existing digital collections more accessible and useful.. and present a backlog I can and want to get through
1 project | /r/datacurator | 14 Oct 2021

Maybe [archivematica](www.archivematica.org) or [CollectionBuilder](collectionbuilder.github.io)
Archivematica: Open-source digital preservation system
1 project | /r/CKsTechNews | 2 Oct 2021

6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Oct 2021
Archivematica: open-source digital preservation system
1 project | /r/opensource | 9 Feb 2021

Collective Access: Providence

Posts with mentions or reviews of Collective Access: Providence. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-20.

CollectiveAccess is free, open-source software for cataloguing and publishing museum and archival collections
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 20 May 2022

Github Repo: https://github.com/collectiveaccess/providence
Suggestions for Collections Management Software
1 project | /r/MuseumPros | 5 Jul 2021

Is this the Connecticut League Of History Organization config mentioned at https://github.com/collectiveaccess/providence/blob/develop/install/profiles/xml/clho_3.xml ?
Collective access question again... where is the “develop branch of the git”?
1 project | /r/Archivists | 25 Jan 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Archivematica and Collective Access: Providence you can also consider the following projects:

ArchivesSpace - The ArchivesSpace archives management tool

Access to Memory (AtoM) - Open-source, web application for archival description and public access.

ArchiveBox - 🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...

CKAN - CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data. It powers catalog.data.gov, open.canada.ca/data, data.humdata.org among many other sites.

ESSArch - ESSArch

diskimageprocessor - Tool for automated processing of disk images in BitCurator

archivematicaworkshop - Material for a workshop on Archivematica.