Collective Access - Providence
Highly configurable Web-based framework for management, description, and discovery of digital and physical collections supporting a variety of metadata standards, data types, and media formats.
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Still maintained? Yes: 291 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 2.0.11 (Mar 2026).
Comparisons in Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP): Wayback Machine alternatives.
At a glance
Collective Access - Providence quick facts
- Health score
- 78/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 388
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 2.0.11, Mar 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "CollectiveAccess is collections management and presentation software maintained by Whirl-i-Gig and contributed to by the open-source community. The CollectiveAccess project began in 2003 as a response to the lack of non-commercial, affordable, open-source solutions for digital collections management. Almost two decades later, CollectiveAccess has projects on 5 continents, providing hundreds of institutions with configurable, up-to-date collections management software."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Collective Access - Providence scores 78/100, #15 of 19 in Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP): 291 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (2.0.11, 8 months ago) earns 22.8 of 25, 388 stars add 10.4 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
291 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 22.8 / 25
2.0.11 released 8 months ago
- Stars 10.4 / 20
388 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 291
- Last 90 days
- 1,083
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #15 of 19 tools in Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP) by health , between Omeka S (#14) and Piler (#16) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | PHP |
| Latest release | 2.0.11 · 8 months ago |
| Stars | 388 |
| Open issues | 171 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | collectiveaccess/providence ↗ |
Collective Access - Providence vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Collective Access - Providence (Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP)), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paperless-ngx | 99 | 47k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| ArchiveBox | 98 | 29k | MIT | yesterday |
| Tube Archivist | 96 | 8.6k | GPL-3.0 | 5 days ago |
| ArchivesSpace | 81 | 447 | ECL-2.0 | yesterday |
| Omeka S | 81 | 528 | GPL-3.0 | 7 days ago |
| Collective Access - Providence (this tool) | 78 | 388 | GPL-3.0 | today |
Collective Access - Providence: common questions
Is Collective Access - Providence still maintained?
Collective Access - Providence had 291 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, 2.0.11, is from 8 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.