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Art & Object Collection Management and Publishing Systems

Your collection in full context

A considered home for your collection and everything known about it. Collect & Present brings artworks, provenance, scholarship, images, and collection operations into one working environment, with distinctive websites and catalogs for the work you choose to share.

Back Woods, 1969

Back Woods, 1969 (prototype archive)

Our first example is a working prototype of a printmaker’s archive, with landscape and botanical subjects spanning several decades. It demonstrates the system's depth across public presentation, scholarly context, collection operations, and stewardship. Client systems are configured for their own collections.

Artists & StudiosEstates & FoundationsPrivate & Family CollectionsCorporate CollectionsGalleries & AdvisorsMuseums & InstitutionsCollection ProfessionalsSpecial Projects

The System

A connected system for your collection

Cataloging, research, stewardship, and publishing share the same collection record. Each area connects to the others so information stays consistent across the system.

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Collection Core

Authoritative records for every object: identity, physical details, provenance, condition, rights, and relationships.

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Explore

Fast search, faceted filters, saved views, and visual browsing across the full collection.

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Visual Intelligence

Original scan preservation, cleaned derivatives, border cleanup, and careful visual analysis.

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Collection Intelligence

Completeness checks, duplicate detection, controlled vocabularies, and reviewable catalog suggestions.

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Research & Curatorial

Research folders, source-linked notes, bibliography, knowledge graph, timeline, and curatorial working lists.

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Stewardship

Condition and conservation, loans, valuations, insurance, rights, storage, audits, and succession planning.

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Presentation & Publishing

Public archive, curated selections, viewing rooms, labels, checklists, PDFs, and field-level public/private controls.

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People & Institutions

Artists, collectors, lenders, galleries, museums, and institutions with roles and relationships attached to works and events.

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Activity & Operations

Imports, batch edits, review queues, approvals, roles, audit history, undo, dashboards, exports, and configuration.

Designs for the collection

A distinct expression for every collection

Explore six design directions, from the artist archive and editorial catalog to contemporary exhibitions, decorative arts, research indexes, and cultural programmes.

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Three Ways to Begin

A foundation that grows with your collection

Scope depends on collection size, record condition, media and digitization needs, migration, modules, collaboration, and public presentation. Pricing is determined after assessment.

01

Collection Foundation

A defined, repeatable system for an individual or smaller collection: collection core, media, documents, search, imports, reports, private workspace, and optional public presentation. Configured and branded without a ground-up custom build.

02

Configured Archive

Adds the modules and workflows needed for a studio, estate, foundation, gallery, or organizational collection: people, exhibitions, publications, research, loans, condition, valuations, rights, collaboration, approvals, visual publishing, and migration support.

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Custom Collection Platform

For institutions, complex estates, multi-collection organizations, public/private portals, specialized data models, integrations, approval workflows, licensing, AI search, custom reporting, and unusual collection types. Request a proposal.

Intelligence, With Judgment

Intelligence guided by your judgment

The system can extract, compare, classify, suggest, connect, summarize, and surface possible gaps. It can propose catalog fields, identify visual similarities, flag missing data, and map relationships.

People approve what becomes authoritative. Interpretive language, attribution, dates, provenance, condition, rights, valuation, and cultural context require expert review. Uncertainty, sources, confidence, and decision history are preserved.

No autonomous rewriting of authoritative records. Drafts and suggestions remain private until deliberately approved.

One Collection, Many Faces

The right view for every audience

Public

A public archive or collection site that is searchable, accessible, and indexed, with selected fields visible and operational fields private.

Private

The authenticated working environment where the collection is cataloged, maintained, and managed with full records, media, documents, and operational tools.

Shared

Private presentations for collectors, researchers, lenders, curators, insurers, or advisors with role-based views for administrators, registrars, researchers, editors, and clients.

Tell us about your collection

Start with your collection, your priorities, and the way you want to present the work. Complete an assessment at your own pace; a call is optional.

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