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05b Service · Migration
FROM V6 / V7

Micromusée

WE MIGRATE YOUR DATA TO

CollectiveAccess

Micromusée is the most widely deployed software in France for museum collections — published by Mobydoc for three decades, acquired by Axiell France in 2016, in use at more than 400 museums including 15 national museums. V7 (2016, maintained) includes a networked Windows cataloguing client and an OPAC Web module. Some institutions wish to join the open source CollectiveAccess ecosystem for source code sovereignty, to remove per-seat licensing, or for broader alignment with international standards (Dublin Core, EAD, IIIF…). We migrate your base — records, vocabularies, media, hierarchies — to a free, full-web, standard MySQL platform.

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LOCK · LICENCE OPEN
Micromusée licence + maintenance
0€
OPEN CODE · FREE
CollectiveAccess is GPL-licensed: no per-seat licence, no mandatory annual royalty. You pay for managed hosting, support and development — not for a right of use.
BEFORE
Proprietary software
PER-SEAT LICENCE
→
AFTER
Open source platform
BROWSER ONLY·OPEN SOURCE·API REST
— Process
01

A migration guided, never endured.

5 steps · 8 to 16 weeks
STEP 01 · 1 TO 2 WKS

Audit

We study your data: volume, custom fields, hierarchies, linked media, access rights. Delivered as a report and a target mapping.

DELIVERABLES
  • ↳ Field inventory
  • ↳ Data mapping
  • ↳ Migration plan
STEP 02 · 1 TO 3 WKS

Mapping

Design of the target CollectiveAccess structure — projection of the Micromusée model (objects, lots, vocabularies, hierarchies, movements) into CA record types and relations. Validated with your scholarly teams.

DELIVERABLES
  • ↳ Customised CA profile
  • ↳ Reference lists
  • ↳ Correspondence tables
STEP 03 · 2 TO 6 WKS

Migration

Extraction from Micromusée (structured export, SQL dump, media linked via containers), transformations (relations, dates, vocabularies, inventory numbers), import into CollectiveAccess. HD media copied and re-indexed.

DELIVERABLES
  • ↳ Acceptance-ready database
  • ↳ Migrated media
  • ↳ Quality report
STEP 04 · 2 TO 4 WKS

Acceptance

Cross-checks: your reference users validate the migrated records, we adjust, we document. Iterations on a pre-production environment.

DELIVERABLES
  • ↳ Test plan
  • ↳ Issue tracking
  • ↳ Acceptance report
STEP 05 · 1 WK

Training & switch-over

Team training on their own migrated database. Switch to production, support during the first days, managed hosting included.

DELIVERABLES
  • ↳ Training sessions
  • ↳ Production rollout
  • ↳ 30-day follow-up
— Comparison
02

Eleven concrete reasons to migrate.

Micromusée → CollectiveAccess
AXIS
MICROMUSÉE
COLLECTIVEACCESS
Business model
Proprietary — per-seat licence + annual Axiell maintenance
★
Open source (GPL) — no licence, no per-user royalty
Source code
Closed — only Axiell evolves the software core
★
Open — Whirl-i-Gig (NY), European integrators, idéesculture, community
Architecture
Networked Windows client (V7) + OPAC Web for publication
✓
100% web — Providence for cataloguing, Pawtucket for publication, browser everywhere
Community & ecosystem
Centred on Axiell France — francophone users, Axiell training
✓
International CollectiveAccess community — Mémorial 11/9 (NY), Villa Médicis, Musée d'Orsay, INRAP…
Metadata standards
Joconde, Service des Musées de France standards
✓
Joconde + Dublin Core, EAD, VRA Core, MARC, PBCore, muséesDeFrance profile — native
Public website
Axiell OPAC Web module (optional)
✓
Pawtucket included — faceted browsing, IIIF, ready to theme
API / interoperability
Axiell API, standardised exports (Joconde, OAI-PMH depending on module)
✓
Open REST API + OAI-PMH, RDF, Linked Data, Z39.50 — documented and free
3D / IIIF multimedia
Attached media; no 3D viewer or native IIIF
✓
Three.js 3D viewers (idéesculture plugin), native IIIF, interactive annotations
Domain plugins
Axiell modules (Mobytext, SNBase, OPAC Web…) to be acquired
✓
14 record types as standard; idéesculture plugins (muséesDeFrance, NFC, offline mode) open source
Long-term viability
Tied to Axiell France's roadmap and continued support of the Mobydoc range
✓
GPL code — exportable at any time, independent of any single publisher
Reversibility
Export via Axiell tools (Joconde, EAD, CSV)
✓
Standard MySQL database — SQL dump, readable with any tool

★ Two gains change the game: moving away from proprietary software and open source code. Everything else — durability, openness, interoperability — flows from there.

— Guarantees
03

Four safety nets.

Included
01 INTEGRITY

Data preserved

No loss. Every Micromusée field finds its equivalent — including hierarchies, controlled vocabularies and media links.

02 ACCEPTANCE

Tested round-trip

Before going live, you work on a copy of your real database, in pre-production. Adjustments are free of charge.

03 SOVEREIGNTY

You stay in control

The server is hosted by us, but the database and the media belong to you. Full export available at any time, in an open format.

04 COST

No hidden licence

Once migrated, no more purchase or extension fees. You pay for hosting and support, that's it.

TYPICAL CASE · MUSÉE DE FRANCE · ~12,000 RECORDS
From Micromusée to CollectiveAccess: fields left behind, features gained.

« Sweeping through the Mobydoc base, I saw that the Particularité field was often filled with information about location, domain, or details about the lot or fonds. Since we are rewriting the location and the domain field is already filled, I think we should not merge with Observations — Particularité is therefore a field we could drop, even if we lose some information. »

11,800
records migrated
9 wks
end-to-end
0 €
in licences
— FIRST STEP IS FREE

Send us a Micromusée export.
We send back a costed migration plan.

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DESKTOP →

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WEB →

AtoM open source

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WEB →

Omeka Classic / S

Plateforme web de publication patrimoniale
DESKTOP →

Encyclia

Logiciel de gestion documentaire
DESKTOP →

S-Museum Skinsoft

Solution propriétaire pour collections (Skinsoft Museum)
DESKTOP →

Flora

Suite de gestion documentaire et archives
WEB →

Pallas BruDISC

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STANDARD →

Dublin Core standard

Dump générique Dublin Core (XML / CSV / OAI-PMH)
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Les autres métiers d'idéesculture.

01 →

Formation

Prise en main, autonomie, montée en compétence
03 →

Hébergement

Serveurs dédiés, infogérance, sauvegardes
04 →

Musées de France

Inventaire, récolement, export Joconde
05 →

Développement

Plugins, intégrations, sur-mesure

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