One description, everywhere it’s needed.

Describe the material

Catalog to Describing Archives: A Content Standard, with full Part I and Part II support. Build real multilevel hierarchy — collection to series to file to item — where each level stores only what is set at that level and inherited values are computed when the record is read, so correcting a collection-level statement corrects everything beneath it.

Name access points come from live Library of Congress lookups rather than retyping, and controlled vocabularies are real tables, not free-text fields you hope stay consistent.

Attach the files

Digital objects hang beneath the records that describe them — images, audio, video, PDFs, or pointers to material hosted elsewhere. Uploads go straight from your browser to object storage, so file size is not bounded by what a web form will tolerate, and every institution’s files live in their own bucket.

Curate the pages

Compose a landing page, an about page, and narrative exhibits by dragging blocks into place. An item card points at a record you already cataloged, so the archival description shown to a visitor is the description you maintain — editorial framing lives on the page, never written back into the catalog.

Themes read from a token layer rather than from the content, so re-theming a site does not mean rebuilding its pages.

Publish and be found

Your site goes live at your institution’s own address with your logo, navigation, and colors. Alongside the curated pages sits a faceted research view, so a scholar who wants to browse the collection at every level can do that instead of reading the exhibit you happened to build.