https://www.orangeleaf.com/ Recent content in CollectionsBase on Orangeleaf Systems Ltd — UK Digital Heritage Consultants Hugo en-gb https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/migrating-from-axiell-calm/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/migrating-from-axiell-calm/ James Grimster writes: We are announcing a new tool as part of our CollectionsBase suite of applications, the simply named atom-tool to assist in CALM migrations. Developed in partnership with a number of our customers, my team has built a tool that allows me to work interactively and iteratively with CALM DScribe database XML exports from CALM, into the internationally regarded and popular Access To Memory (AtoM) application. We provide AtoM hosted and managed as a SaaS (Software as a Service) part of our CollectionsBase platform. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/orangeleaf-metadatis-epexio/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:01:20 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/orangeleaf-metadatis-epexio/ Over the past few months we have been working with Metadatis to bring Epexio into our CollectionsBase solution. We are excited to be able to support this new archives collection management platform within our processes. For customers who are in regional aggregation projects, where there are a number of different collection management systems, or for customers using our Capita payment gateway shop integration or Reader and Order Management CRM solution we are providing our ingress pipeline configured for Epexio XML reports. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/breweryheritage-the-national-archives/ Sun, 14 Sep 2025 10:01:20 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/breweryheritage-the-national-archives/ This September 2025 we’ve launched the latest project in our long standing relationship with NBHT: Brewery Heritage. We’ve been running the Brewery Archives, our CollectionsBase WordPress search interface of Archive and Museum collection data, that is managed and updated through an Access To Memory (AtoM) installation that we also run for the Trust, for the past six years. This summer, in conjunction with the National Lottery Heritage Fund bid towards the redevelopment of Bass House in Burton upon Trent, the Trust asked us to redevelop the Archives website into a more focused, simpler design. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/museum-archive-ai-seo-structured-data/ Fri, 07 Mar 2025 09:50:36 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/museum-archive-ai-seo-structured-data/ Our solution comprises two parts: the generation of a specially structured data response that we have discovered that works best with our CollectionsBase API (Application Programming Interface) within a search context, and control of the bots to guide them to this specialised contextual information about the museum object records and archive records. Rather than block the bots entirely, we are working with them to present structured information for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) via a load balanced caching mechanism that prevents overload of our collections search websites. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/introducing-showcase-lite/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 09:50:36 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/introducing-showcase-lite/ We are pleased to be able to offer a new, next generation interface for CollectionsBase. Over the past few months, we’ve been developing a new lightweight javascript framework based user interface that has the same functionality as our main WordPress based collections search plugin. The search has both list, grid, map and timeline layouts of results, with a facet refinement and filtering panel. We are providing IIIF based support using both OpenSeadragon and optionally Universal Viewer, and we have a connector to Preservica API for digital surrogates. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/staffordshire-history-centre/ Fri, 24 Jan 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/staffordshire-history-centre/ We are pleased to announce that we have delivered a new CollectionsBase catalogue search, search room booking forms and shop for Staffordshire History Centre https://www.staffordshirehistory.org.uk This is phase one, and features: Mobile first responsive design for WordPress following Staffordshire County Council branding requirements Catalogue search of Axiell CALM based data sources, with ongoing additions to the catalogue during phase two Integrated Shop, with phase two bringing reprographics ordering and payment Payment integration with Access PaySuite Ltd Pay360 Google tag manager integrated into catalogue search and record view Homepage streaming introduction film Indexing of Staffordshire Names Index data via Algolia AI with federated search integration API Phase Two will bring Preservica integration with our viewer, historic map presentation, timelines and gallery. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/our-domain-is-not-for-sale/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 09:50:36 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/our-domain-is-not-for-sale/ This is notice that the domain name orangeleaf.com is wholly owned by Orangeleaf Systems Ltd since 29 October 1998 and is not, nor will it ever be, for sale to any third party. orangeleaf.com and the orange leaf logo device are the trading styles of Orangeleaf Systems Ltd since 29 October 1998. Thank you. James Grimster Founder, Orangeleaf Systems Ltd https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/sussex-day-new-site-for-wsro/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 09:50:36 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/sussex-day-new-site-for-wsro/ The new web site runs on the latest iteration of our CollectionsBase Museum and Archives platform, using WordPress as its base. It also features our full Archives CMS: Reader Order Management solution with all its new functionality. Our ROM solution now fully integrates with ARA Archives Card registration system, to allow direct single sign on from ARA Archives Card holders to WSRO. The single sign on for ARA Archives card is unique, and the first platform to fully realise the Archives Card offer: centralised management of Readers across UK archives. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/enabling-preservica-ce-and-axiell-calm-e-commerce-payments/ Wed, 26 Apr 2023 08:19:42 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/enabling-preservica-ce-and-axiell-calm-e-commerce-payments/ We’ve developed our newest version to enable County Record Offices using Preservica Cloud Edition for Consortiums solution to leverage their ongoing investment in Digital Preservation whilst still fully remaining in control using fine grained access managed through the cataloguing system they are used to, Axiell CALM. Our ROM product is unique in that it is fully compliant and tested with the two most used council payment gateways: Civica ICON and Capita Pay360. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/transatlantic-ties-for-west-sussex-record-office/ Mon, 06 Jun 2022 09:50:36 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/transatlantic-ties-for-west-sussex-record-office/ The new Transatlantic Ties web site runs on our CollectionsBase Museum and Archives platform, using WordPress as its base. It features a “subject specific index locked” search over Axiell CALM records as part of our larger CALM data set for all of West Sussex Record Office. It provides full IIIF service for digital surrogates including large volume scanned sets, presented through Universal Viewer. We are pleased to showcase our new CollectionsBase Exhibit interface functionality, using Open Seadragon and Annotorious. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/supporting-the-seamless-migration-from-calm-to-axiell-collections/ Fri, 25 Feb 2022 12:12:54 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/supporting-the-seamless-migration-from-calm-to-axiell-collections/ Uniquely in the industry, CollectionsBase has an ‘agnostic’ approach to collections management systems through the use of a standards compliant interchange protocol. Gwynedd Museums Service remapped from Axiell CALM to Axiell Collections, and all that was required from Orangeleaf Systems was a new ingress pipeline - everything else stays the same, and the curator could reload records as necessary to update the collections site. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/museum-of-welsh-cricket-launches-new-website/ Fri, 25 Feb 2022 11:51:34 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/museum-of-welsh-cricket-launches-new-website/ The new website has been created by Orangeleaf Systems - with the assistance of a grant from the Museums Federation - and contains a number of pages in the Welsh language. “We believe we are the first sporting organization in Wales to have a bilingual website celebrating the history of the game,” said Andrew Hignell, the Curator of the Museum who, together with a team of volunteers, has overseen the creation of the website. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/the-south-asia-collection-uses-collectionsbase-museum-platform-for-new-collections-web-site/ Fri, 25 Feb 2022 11:45:38 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/the-south-asia-collection-uses-collectionsbase-museum-platform-for-new-collections-web-site/ The South Asia Collection was created in 2010 and aims to celebrate the arts, crafts and cultures of the South Asia. The collection is housed at The South Asia Collection Museum, Norwich, and cared for by the South Asian Decorative Arts and Crafts Collection Trust (SADACC). There are permanent and changing displays and it is free to visit. View the new website today. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/parliament-art-collection-and-axiell-emu/ Thu, 02 Sep 2021 11:20:26 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/parliament-art-collection-and-axiell-emu/ Developed over the spring and summer of 2021, this bespoke website is within the Parliament brand and utilises our CollectionsBase museum platform and data pipeline process for search and display. It features search refinement via facets and an OpenSeadragon based zooming image function. The site also uses our CollectionsBase MyCollection functionality to allow researches to collect a basket of objects and produce an output report in PDF or CSV for further study. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/2021-our-busiest-start-ever/ Thu, 18 Feb 2021 09:30:57 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/2021-our-busiest-start-ever/ The beginning of 2021 has seen a huge rise in the number of people accessing our regional museum and archive projects, especially those with our reprographics request system for digitisation on demand. We’ve launched new local museum Whitchurch who use Modes through our 15 year long originally HLF funded Discover Shropshire aggregation project which is still going strong. We’ve relaunched Black Country History, the regional aggregation of 8 CALM users’ catalogues. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/fully-bilingual-welsh-english-archive-catalogue-search-and-crm-website-for-newa/ Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:53:25 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/fully-bilingual-welsh-english-archive-catalogue-search-and-crm-website-for-newa/ Welsh and English accessible system The website and reader and order management solution is fully localised into Welsh to meet Welsh Government requirements as well as WCAG 2.1 AA. The solution features an online shop connecting to the joint service payment gateway provided through Capita SCP web services platform. The shop is used for both publications and research and reprographics. We have also supplied to NEWA our leading software solution : Reader and Order Management. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/collectionsbase-7-0-collection-management-system-compatibility/ Thu, 10 Sep 2020 14:14:00 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/collectionsbase-7-0-collection-management-system-compatibility/ The following is our current 2018 list, product names are copyright / trademarks of their respective owners. Axiell CALM Axiell Mimsy XG Axiell KE Emu Axiell Adlib Modes Compact and Complete Gallery Systems TMS Axiell MobyDoc Micromusee (via OPAC) Zetcom MuseumPlus Exegesis HBSMR Vernon CMS CollectiveAccess Arches Artefactual AtoM HEROS Plus connections to, via APIs for: Preservica (DP) , ResourceSpace (DAMS) and Arkivum (DP) https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/ica-atom-and-collectionsbase-for-national-brewery-centre-archive-and-museum/ Mon, 06 Jul 2020 09:01:20 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/ica-atom-and-collectionsbase-for-national-brewery-centre-archive-and-museum/ It quickly became apparent that we had to do a full scale intervention. From an initial audit, we discovered: the version of Micromusée being used was legacy, on a single PC, with unconnected digitised assets and no OPAC installation Micromusée could not hold the archive records, there was no archival hierarchy volunteers would have to visit the centre, to catalogue on the PC - a requirement that would soon (unknown at the time) become problematic. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/surrey-archives-2020-calm-and-e-commerce/ Thu, 09 Jan 2020 17:45:51 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/surrey-archives-2020-calm-and-e-commerce/ We are pleased to launch the new website for Surrey Archives. The new site uses the existing CALM based collection datasets loaded to our CollectionsBase platform for Archives and Museums, which for the past decade has delivered Exploring Surrey’s Past. Delivering on the strategy of Create Once, Publish Everywhere (COPE) , the new Surrey Archives replacing the old CalmView is actually a ‘filtered’ search of the whole ESP set, just searching within Surrey’s Collection. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/replacing-calmview-a-feature-comparison/ Mon, 04 Nov 2019 17:25:47 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/replacing-calmview-a-feature-comparison/ Whilst CALM itself is one of the class leading Archive collection management systems, its public facing discovery service does (and I’d suggest Axiell themselves might agree with this) leave a few things to be desired. One main advantage of an Orangeleaf Systems CollectionsBase approach is that archivists can remain using CALM for cataloguing. Unlike CalmView, we are not directly coupled to an Axiell connection – our process creates a separate metadata repository of CALM data, that is indexed into an OpenSearch compliant API that we use ourselves. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/the-express-and-star-photo-archive-and-our-api/ Mon, 04 Mar 2019 17:28:14 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/the-express-and-star-photo-archive-and-our-api/ The metadata and catalogue search is also available for the Photo Archive on Black Country History: http://blackcountryhistory.org/collections/search/?q=dc.identifier:D-EXP/P/* where it is shown in aggregation with the other regional archives, and is itself a Collection within Wolverhampton Archive aggregated set. We have approached other projects using our API centred approach for business archives within City archives – for example the Minton Archive and the Michelin Archive. What is key to this approach is that we have not imported the archival descriptions into the front end Collection Management Systems. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/two-decades-working-with-archives-museums-and-archaeology-services/ Thu, 18 Oct 2018 14:13:00 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/two-decades-working-with-archives-museums-and-archaeology-services/ Our very first project was the design and development of a Museum Collection website for Shrewsbury Museum : Darwin Country, which still remains today! We’ve become specialised in the connection to all the many varied Collection Management Systems, transforming and crosswalking the data within them using Heritage Standards such as ISAD(G)/ EAD, SPECTRUM, MIDAS, CIDOC CRM and Dublin Core. Over the years, we’ve used those skills to create unique cross sector public access web applications for small museums up to large National and International organisations. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/archives-barcodes-and-minimum-producible-items-for-a-move/ Sun, 15 Jul 2018 23:00:00 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/archives-barcodes-and-minimum-producible-items-for-a-move/ We are building a sector specific solution for Archives, including the issuing and returning of ordered documents, both in advance and on the day in the Search Room. Up until now, our move control system has been working very much like a standard inventory management or warehouse management system : documents are ordered, and these are in containers which have barcodes. The containers themselves are always moved to the production area, before issuing the document(s) from them. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/hertfordshire-archives-and-local-studies/ Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:45:56 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/hertfordshire-archives-and-local-studies/ We are pleased to announce that we’ve delivered a new CollectionsBase catalogue search for Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies at https://archives.hertfordshire.gov.uk Featuring: Mobile first responsive design for WordPress following Hertfordshire County Council branding requirements Catalogue search of CALM data source, with listing, maps, image gallery and timeline using CollectionsBase 7.1 interface via our WordPress plugin Integrated Shop, with one search to cover both Archives and Shop for cross sell Physical products and services (reprographics, research) with Gravity Forms integration for information capture Payment integration with Civica ICON Authority Google tag manager integrated into catalogue search and record view https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/new-archives-catalogue-search-website-for-kent-county-council/ Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:28:00 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/new-archives-catalogue-search-website-for-kent-county-council/ The new website uses our very latest CollectionsBase 7.1 catalogue search interface to search records held by the Archive in CALM. The system is being launched in a number of phases. Phase One comprises the ‘mobile first‘ catalogue search interface, with map search, image gallery and timeline search. Phase One includes the Content Management System for research support and thematic content pages. Next year brings e-commerce enabled reprographic quotation requests, digital downloads of Access Copies from the Digital Preservation system and full physical document ordering with real time document production tracking (Kent Archives has barcoded containers and shelves) using our Reader and Order Management System. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/east-sussex/ Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:13:44 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/east-sussex/ Developed in conjunction with East Sussex County Council for The Keep, and licensed with their approval for new customers our Software as a Service is a UK first in fully integrating both a real-time view of spaces available within the search room alongside document advance ordering and movement control. This software has been developed specifically for the needs of Archives, Museum stores and Local History Centres, and works in harmony with both Axiell CALM, ICA AccessToMemory (both local and cloud hosted) and Archivists’ Toolkit / ArchivesSpace. https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/building-the-john-gray-centre-website-and-portal/ Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:39:00 +0000 https://www.orangeleaf.com/post/building-the-john-gray-centre-website-and-portal/ The new museum, archive, library, HER website comprises a distributed architecture spread across a number of host servers: The website front end built from WordPress (self hosted) www.wordpress.org Mobile plugin and templates for mobile website Our custom developed CollectionsPress plugin providing: Configuration of search views over CollectionsBase API (default operators, facets, listing control) Object of the day with featured object shortcodes Record display with custom XSLT view transforms Image browser Institution server record display OpenLayers map integration with Ordnance Survey, Aerial and WMS layers from CollectionsBase Web Map Services