CollectionSpace Technical Documentation
About CollectionSpace
CollectionSpace is used by museums, universities, and historical societies featuring collections from various disciplines. Lyrasis serves as the organizational home for CollectionSpace providing infrastructure and support for the growing community of users.
About Technical Documentation
CollectionSpace for System Administrators
This documentation is for institutions that self-host CollectionSpace. If you host CollectionSpace, installation, upgrades, and configurations are handled by your hosting provider.
Learn more about CollectionSpace for System Administrators.
CollectionSpace for Developers
This documentation is for CollectionSpace development team.
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Current Release of CollectionSpace is 8.1. Visit Current and Past Release Notes for details.
Visit the website at CollectionSpace.org to learn more about the program.
CollectionSpace User Manual
See CollectionSpace User Manual for end user documentation. This documentation is limited to users at institutions that contribute to the CollectionSpace Program.
First-time users, see Accessing User Manual
Contribute to CollectionSpace
If you are self-hosting CollectionSpace, please consider making an annual contribution to the CollectionSpace program. Annual financial support allows the CollectionSpace team to focus on development efforts and advancing program priorities to serve our users.
Visit Contribute to CollectionSpace for more information. Contributors will gain access to the User Manual.
CollectionSpace is licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0.
See Licensing for details.