Sammlung+ · collection software for museums & public institutions

From data curation to an experience website.

Sammlung+ curates your objects in a LIDO-compliant way — and turns selected parts into an accessible, living online collection at the click of a button. Two worlds, one system.

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Multi-tenantLIDO-compliantImport from source systemsAI-assistedRoles & permissionsPublic APIWCAG 2.2 AA

What it's about

Curating collection data is one thing. Making it an experience is another.

01

Data locked in the source system

Curated, but publicly invisible — or only as a plain list.

02

Accessibility is mandatory

BITV/EU require accessible offerings — the capacity and know-how are missing.

03

Websites go stale

Every special exhibition turns into an IT project.

Sammlung+ closes this gap — from curation to publication.

Two worlds, one system

Editing and public website — cleanly separated, closely interlocked.

Sammlung+ dashboard with key figures on objects and albums

Curation platform

The editorial team curates objects, levels and albums — standard-compliant and role-based.

Public album page with a large cover image and introductory text

Public experience website

Selected content goes online via a token-secured API — in the institution's corporate design. You choose what becomes public and how it appears.

01 — The curation platform

Curate the collection in one place.

Objects — LIDO-compliant

All objects managed to standard: title, dating, material, dimensions, media, status. Data usually comes in via import from the source system; quick search and advanced field search are built in.

  • Compatible with museum standards
  • No data silo
Tabular object list with title, dating and status

Albums — curated selections

Assembled from levels and individual objects, with a choice of layout (grid, gallery, story, timeline) and order — a new online presentation without an IT project.

Album overview with cover images and layout options

Import & mapping

Connect external object databases (e.g. Daphne, Axiell): map source fields to LIDO target fields, sync throttled and incrementally — every run is logged.

  • Your existing curation stays, Sammlung+ follows suit
Mapping interface: source fields on the left, LIDO target fields on the right
Tree-like level structure: depot, shelf, compartment

Levels

An arbitrarily deep hierarchy — one click controls the visibility of entire holdings.

Dashboard with key figures and open tasks

Dashboard

The state of the collection at a glance — objects, albums, active content, open tasks.

Configuring an AI image description with image and target field

AI image description

Comprehensible object texts via AI — drafts go into curator review, not straight online.

02 — The public experience website

The object list becomes an experience.

Modules you switch on per album or object — in the institution's corporate design, connected via the public API.

Public album page with a large cover image and introductory text

Story album

A narrative entry point: cover image and editorial text above the objects.

Interactive network diagram of connected objects

Semantic network

Objects as a network of relationships across material, genre, era and person.

Sunburst diagram of the collection

Sunburst chart

The composition of the collection; a click on a segment opens the objects.

An artwork as a jigsaw puzzle on the website

Object puzzle

Looking closely as a game — especially for families and younger audiences.

Objects sorted by colour, coloured selection bar

Colour keyboard

Sort by image colour — a language-free access that works across language barriers.

Map with object locations as points

Provenance map

Objects as points on a map — the local connection resonates most.

Timeline with a movable filter window

Time slider

Drag a time window across the eras and filter the works shown.

Public search with facets and a results grid

Search & filter

Full-text search with facets (object type, creator …) across the released holdings.

Object detail page with zoom image and metadata

Object detail

Single view with IIIF deep zoom, metadata and sharing — plus optional modules.

Object view with a toggle between photo and a rotatable 3D model

3D view

A toggle between photo and an explorable 3D model — visitors rotate the object freely. The model is built from the existing object images; enabled per object.

03 — AI extensions

Artificial intelligence that makes collections accessible.

AI avatar — talk to an object

Visitors ask a collection object questions and get answers as if the person or the work itself were facing them — as text or with real speech output. A collection to look things up in becomes a conversation.

  • Answers from uploaded PDF/Word documents and object data — nothing made up
  • Character & voice controllable via meta-documents
  • Enabled per object; choice of OpenAI (ChatGPT) or Anthropic (Claude); limits & kill switch
Chat window “In conversation with an object” with a question and answer

AI search — search in your own words

Visitors simply describe an object in words — image content, motif or mood (“melancholic winter scene”) — and the AI finds the most similar works (semantic search via embeddings). On the object page it also shows three further matching objects.

  • Its own menu item, visible only when enabled (whole collection or per album)
  • Access without expert vocabulary — visitors find what they mean
AI search page with a search field and a grid of matching objects

Foundation

Built for demanding, public collections.

Accessible (WCAG 2.2 AA)

The public output is fully keyboard-operable, high-contrast, motion-reducible, with meaningful alt texts.

Multi-tenant & data-secure

Separate databases per institution (database-per-tenant), encrypted credentials — GDPR-friendly.

Open, token-secured API

The modules can also be integrated into TYPO3 or WordPress — no isolated solution.

Roles, permissions & release: Administrator · Curator · Editor with fine-grained rights; content goes through a release step before it becomes public.

For whom

For institutions that want to open up their collection.

Museums & collections

Art, culture, nature, technology, city and local history museums.

Public institutions & authorities

With a collection/holdings mandate — accessibility is mandatory.

Archives & exhibition venues

Make structured holdings accessible; curated online companion without an IT project.

Get to know us, no strings

Let us show your collection.

We demonstrate Sammlung+ live using your examples — curation, modules, AI.

Prefer to write? kontakt@eyeworkers.de

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All images are from a demo environment; personal and institution names are anonymised. Example objects: Cleveland Museum of Art (CC0).