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05b Service · Migration
FROM SKINSOFT

S-Museum

WE MIGRATE YOUR DATA TO

CollectiveAccess

S-Museum is a serious full-web solution, published by SKINsoft (Besançon, since 2008), SPECTRUM-compliant and validated by the Service des Musées de France. Some of its users choose to join the CollectiveAccess ecosystem — for source code sovereignty, to be part of an international open source community, or for a controlled total cost over 10 years. We have already supported this migration; we know how to bring across records, vocabularies and media.

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LOCK · LICENCE OPEN
S-Museum licence + maintenance
0€
OPEN CODE · FREE
CollectiveAccess is GPL-licensed: no publisher subscription, MySQL database exportable at any time, international community developing the software core. You pay for managed hosting and support, not for a right of use.
BEFORE
Proprietary software
LICENCE + MAINTENANCE
→
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 your S-Museum model 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 S-Museum (structured export or SQL dump provided by SKINsoft, linked media), transformations (relations, dates, vocabularies), import into CollectiveAccess. HD media and multimedia records included.

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.

S-Museum → CollectiveAccess
AXIS
S-MUSEUM
COLLECTIVEACCESS
Business model
Proprietary — licence + annual maintenance paid to the publisher
★
Open source (GPL) — no licence, no royalty
Source code
Closed — only the publisher evolves the software core
★
Open — international community (Whirl-i-Gig, European integrators, idéesculture)
Community & ecosystem
Centred on a single publisher (SKINsoft) and its partners
✓
International CollectiveAccess community — Mémorial du 11 septembre (NY), Villa Médicis, Musée d'Orsay, INRAP…
Metadata standards
SPECTRUM compliant, Joconde exports, validated by Service des Musées de France
✓
Dublin Core, EAD, VRA Core, MARC, PBCore, muséesDeFrance profile — native
Public website
SKINsoft publication modules (S-Web, S-Voyager) optional
✓
Pawtucket included — faceted public site, ready to theme
API / interoperability
SKINsoft API, OAI-PMH, standardised exports
✓
Open REST API + OAI-PMH, RDF, Linked Data, Z39.50 — documented and free
Domain plugins
SKINsoft modules (S-Archive, S-Library, S-Naturalia, S-Archeo…) to be acquired
✓
14 record types as standard; idéesculture plugins (muséesDeFrance, NFC, offline mode, 3D…) open source
Long-term viability
Tied to SKINsoft's commercial longevity
✓
GPL code — exportable at any time, independent of any single publisher
Source code sovereignty
Proprietary black box — you depend on a publisher for every change
★
Open code — any team (yours, idéesculture, another integrator) can evolve it
Hosting
SKINsoft cloud or on the museum's server — GDPR depending on contract
✓
Hosted in France (OVH Roubaix / Strasbourg) or on your premises, GDPR-native
Reversibility
Export via SKINsoft tools (SPECTRUM formats, XML)
✓
Standard MySQL database — exportable SQL dump, readable with any tool

★ Three gains change the game: moving away from proprietary software, open source code and source code sovereignty. 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.

— FIRST STEP IS FREE

Send us a S-Museum export.
We send back a costed migration plan.

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WEB →

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WEB →

Omeka Classic / S

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DESKTOP →

Encyclia

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DESKTOP →

Flora

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DESKTOP →

Micromusée v6 / v7

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WEB →

Pallas BruDISC

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STANDARD →

Dublin Core standard

Dump générique Dublin Core (XML / CSV / OAI-PMH)
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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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