Your Own Collection
Set up and curate a collection step by step.
Katalon Collections Documentation
Open-source metadata management system for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums.
Getting Started
Section titled “Getting Started”Schema & Authority Data
Field definitions, controlled vocabularies, and linked-data sources (GND, Wikidata, GeoNames).
Collection Management
Hierarchical collections, storage locations, loans, and conservation.
Interfaces & LOD
REST API, semantic JSON-LD/RDF export (CIDOC-CRM & LRMoo), and OAI-PMH.
What Is Katalon?
Section titled “What Is Katalon?”Katalon Collections is a metadata management system for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums.
The domain data lives in seven core types: Objects, Entities, Places, Occurrences, Collections, Storage Locations, and Procedures (loans, acquisitions, conservation). Fields, forms, and controlled vocabularies with authority-data integration can be flexibly customized.
Background on motivation and principles: About Katalon Collections.