IdéesCulture SAS is a company specializing in the management of open source databases dedicated to cultural collections, such as those of museums, archives and libraries. Its multidisciplinary team offers in-depth expertise to support various cultural institutions in the management and enhancement of their collections.
Our company collaborates with a variety of clients, including the French State for the movable property of ministries, major national museums, private foundations, archaeology operators, private archive centers, as well as projects related to music, living heritage, urban arts, university research and religious heritage.
In addition to providing software solutions, IdéesCulture SAS offers services such as the development of mobile applications and websites to facilitate cultural visits, as well as the creation of catalogues raisonnés for artists. The company also highlights specific features of the CollectiveAccess platform, aimed at improving ergonomics and functionality for users.
Collection management
Your size
We are a team with a range of skills, specializing in the field of databases for large collections of objects (museums, archives, libraries) powered by open-source solutions.
Opensource
We work to provide ambitious open-source tools to as many cultural institutions and research organizations as possible. We are responsive and adaptive, and are used to bringing together teams of 1 to 20 people depending on the size of the project.
Gestion des collections
With the CollectiveAccess project, which allows large physical collections to be managed in a web interface (Whirl-i-Gig deployed CollectiveAccess at the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York), Idéesculture has re-computerized the collections of the Villa Medici in Rome, created the virtual museum of the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP), and renewed the Exhibition Database of the Musée d'Orsay, as well as an increasing number of French museums. There is an offer on CollectiveAccess in ever more languages and countries...
Research
We also work on the management of purely digital collections (instrument making and audio analysis with data visualization) and have been active in the ANR P-RECIHC project “Reading in Europe: Contemporary Issues in Historical and Comparative Perspectives”, helping to develop a format derived specifically from the Text Encoding Initiative standard, and thus use archiving standards in research on reading practices.
All the skills for your project
Documentary management of the collections
Archives, physical and virtual collections for museums and exhibition venues, photo or multimedia libraries, documentation, etc.Expertise des standards de Métadonnées Spectrum, MARC, LIDO, EAD/ISAD, Dublin Core...
Webdesign and development
Our skills take us to the boundaries between business software, web applications and websites. We are able to integrate or create your web design from A to Z.
Creation of databases
From the conceptual model to the realization, we support you in the analysis of your needs, the audit of your practices and in the drafting of your specifications.
Data management systems/CMS
From classic PHP/MySQL platforms such as Drupal, WordPress or Joomla, to solutions based on NodeJS or with NoSQL databases.
Image, sound and video processing services
File conversion, automation and batch processing, broadcasting or streaming
Linux administration
We manage our physical machine pool hosted on OVH infrastructure, on which we carry out system installation, Apache optimization, specific compilation of ffmpeg video processing tools, etc. And we can also do it for you, on your machines.Intégration de moteurs de recherche.
Hosting on a dedicated, shared or cloud web server
We are specialists in Linux administration and deployment on dedicated platforms.
Our values and our methodology
Goodwill
Our primary role is to provide support, through advice, training, user assistance or just by listening. This comes well before software development. If we can't reproduce a problem you've encountered in the interface, we don't consider that the problem doesn't exist. This may not seem like much to you, but it makes all the difference in a relationship with a development team.
Recommending opensource without imposing it
We are convinced that the software world would be better off with more and more open source solutions. We will always promote an open source solution when we can and have put online or collaborated on dozens of open source projects. Often our developments coexist with proprietary software, we respect the tools in place and are convinced that richness comes from interconnection.
The importance of human contact
We work in a sector of enthusiasts, whether it be for culture, creativity, open source or free technologies. Exchanging with enthusiasts is a small daily pleasure.
Our methodology
Mindmapping: mind maps for any meeting
Project planning: Phases in a GANTT
Shared open-source code : Online on github
Agile/XP method : Continuous development, maximum responsiveness
Modern tools : Slack, Skype, Zoom, Notion, Copilot under Visual Studio, Zendesk...
Discover our references
Your projects are what get us moving higher.
Sources :
Images, project The Commons, hosted by Flickr.
RCW 108: Massive Young Stars Trigger Stellar Birth (A region of active star formation about 4,000 light years from Earth.), Chandra X-ray Observatory, CC0
Pretoria 74" Reflector, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, CC0