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Quickstart

Quickstart Guide​

Providence is the “back-end” core cataloguing and data management application of CollectiveAccess. Providence can be customized to suit a variety of cataloging needs, and provides many features for catalouging, finding and interacting with data. A web-based application that runs on a server, Providence is designed to be accessed via the internet, enabling collaborative cataloging of collections by widely dispersed teams.

Pawtucket is an optional “front-end” publication and discovery platform for collections. A public web-access tool for digital publication and discovery, Pawtucket’s selected features are designed to handle various aspects relating to data modeling, workflow management, web publishing, granular control and digital preservation for a variety of collections. The base installation for Pawtucket includes a default theme that supports all functionality in a plain white design; however, Pawtucket is meant to be customized to fully suit unique collections.

Support​

User questions: please post to the support forum or ask in the chat room so that everyone can benefit from the conversation.

Developer questions: join the developer Slack channel, a venue for developer discussion and support.

Bugs: post an issue on GitHub issues.

All online support is provided on a best-effort basis by CollectiveAccess developers and the user community. For general information about the software and services Whirl-i-Gig can provide, please visit the CollectiveAccess website.