Catalogue Raisonné: fine-tuning to your needs

You are planning to deploy software to create a catalog raisonné of one or more artists: you are a specialized collector or rights holder, and you want to document your research, provide a professional tool to a potential service provider, possibly publish as you go along for the general public on the web or for a restricted audience, perhaps even behind a login/password.

To do this, it is important to clearly define the main features and functionalities that you want for this software. This may include image management, integration of texts and references, the ability to easily update information, and the ability to share your work with others.

Here are some questions that we need answers to in order to make you a proposal:
- Do you only need the professional/managerial part (the back office, called Providence) in CollectiveAccess?
- Do you need to publish the catalog raisonné right now, as you progress? If so, on one or more dedicated physical workstations? On the web, behind a login screen to allow you to open access to researchers yourself?
- Can you send us an extract of your current data (20 to 50 lines) in a test document (XLSX, ODS, XML, JSON; for other formats, please let us know which one you are using, and the software used to create it)?
- Do you have any idea of the storage requirement? Image only or with audio and video? How many images do you think you will need to store? TIFF or JPEG, what is the average file size?

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