Intelligent Museum Software for the 21st Century
Securely connecting collection management, curatorial content and publishing surfaces with automated workflows to make everything from data maintenance to storytelling the easiest it's ever been.
All of your data, connected in the same place.
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Comprehensive object and contact management
Objects with their acquisition, provenance, condition and exhibition history, and the people behind them: makers, owners, lenders. Every record fully connected to its relevant entities and documents by default. Includes intelligent data analysis so no information gets lost in the archive.
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Connected story telling
Exhibitions, curatorial texts, media and explainers: every form of mediation your institution produces, auto-connected with the objects, people and sources it references. Indexed, searchable and reusable across a variety of publishing surfaces. Upload every exhibition catalogue, video walkthrough or audio tour - Contxt auto-assigns the information you already have to their respective objects and entities, so every future piece of media is traceable back to its source documentation.
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One record, every audience
Citation ready multiform publishing across dedicated channels tailor made for every audience. The same record produces exhibition and artwork pages, audio guides, conversational interfaces, study materials, student portals or research archives. Analytics built in, so you know what is front of mind for each of your audiences.
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Contxt works, you verify
Intelligent workflows that help you build, assign, maintain and even correct data reliably across all your process, without losing control. They follow established museum standards and processes and can be customized to your own requirements. Research, accession, ownership, storage, movement, condition, loan and disposal, automated on the one object record waiting only for your approval.
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Your data, secure and under your control
Dedicated user roles offer varying degrees of read and write access. Every change is stored and revertable - see who made what when and why, and change back easily if necessary.
Contxt can run in the cloud or in house and is built with openness and transparency in mind. We offer generous import and export functionality with LIDO, SKOS, JSON, IIIF. Our open source tooling offers free collection management modules, while our hosted solutions feature scalable publication, research and collaboration tools than can do many of your workflows for you.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Contxt?
Software for museums and archives. You use it to build and maintain collection data, connect curatorial content and exhibitions to objects and people, manage workflows, and publish selected information to websites, audio guides and other audience channels. Intelligent workflows take on recurring data maintenance; you approve every change.
Do we have to replace the system we already use?
No. Contxt works both standalone and also as an additional software to your current stack. Some of our clients maintain their collection in a legacy system while using Contxt exclusively as a publishing tool. Others use Contxt to manage 150 years worth of records. Import and export functionality are at the core of Contxt's design.
How does our existing data get into Contxt?
Import JSON, XML, CSV and spreadsheet files, or connect Contxt through the API. Contxt's built-in intelligence maps the data to your structure and vocabulary and catches errors before anything is saved: importing data has never been this fast, this easy or this accurate. We plan the migration with you.
Where is our data?
On servers in Switzerland or on your own hardware. Access is role-based, and every change is recorded and reversible. You can export everything at any time, free of charge, in open formats or through the API.
What does the Assistant do?
Contxt's intelligent Assistant does in a short time what used to take people many hours: maintaining and correcting data, checking imports, connecting information, reviewing large files and more. You stay in control of every proposed change.
What does Contxt cost?
CHF 150 per active user per month. With annual billing we grant a 10% discount. Guests with read access use Contxt free of charge. A self-hosted open-source version has been announced. We are glad to quote custom projects and migrations in a personal conversation.
How do we get started?
We usually start with a demonstration of the Contxt Platform, a personalized assessment of your situation and needs, and then build a tailored implementation plan. Once you've started with Contxt, we of course remain on hand throughout.