create digital archives and collections

A collecting database built around your needs

With Museum.link you get your own collecting database, structured around your organisation. You design metadata fields, categories and relations based on your collecting goals, whether they concern contemporary stories, objects, archive material, historical documents or research data. You own the structure, the content and how it develops over time.

Create open or closed collections

Choose who can contribute to your database. Create collections that are fully internal, fully public or somewhere in between. Some projects can be open for participation, while others are limited to research, quality assurance or sensitive material. The system gives you full flexibility to run different kinds of collecting side by side in your digital archive.

Start collecting projects on the web

Start your own digital collecting projects directly on the web. Create forms and themed campaigns where participants can contribute stories, pictures, sound or film – structured from the moment they are submitted. This gives you a professional workflow from the very first contribution, whether it is contemporary collecting, a research project or public participation.

Start collecting projects in an app

You can also start collecting projects in a tailor-made app. Museum.link develops a modular, easy-to-navigate app that we adapt to your brand, with good accessibility. Just as on the web, you can receive stories, pictures and other material. Museum.link also stores and handles everything in line with the GDPR and established principles for digital archives.

Digital archiving of existing material

Museum.link can also be used to digitally archive existing material. Import images, documents and databases from earlier systems and gather the content in a structured digital archive. The platform supports import from most common file formats and databases, making it easy to migrate and organise digital collections.

Sort, catalogue and structure your data

With Museum.link you can structure and organise your data with tailored metadata. Create collections, categories and a searchable digital archive that makes the material easy to work with over time. A clear data structure also makes it possible to publish all or part of your database. Thanks to Museum.link's flexibility, the system can also be integrated with external search engines such as Solr.

Choose what becomes public

Choose whether you want to publish all or part of your archive online. The material can be made available on the web or in an app, either to the public or only to users with registered accounts. The system supports established international standards, so material can also be synchronised with platforms such as K-samsök, Kringla and Europeana.

We store your data safely and correctly

Museum.link stores your data securely and for the long term. We back up the archive database to a high standard and store the data on our own servers in Sweden. Museum.link specialises in archive databases for projects, collecting and museums, and offers a dependable technical solution for long-term digital storage.