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Qi Qi capitalises from Keepthinking’s 19-year experience working with cultural public and private organisations organisations.
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Qi = Collection management + Content management + Asset management + Event booking, Ticket sales + Online shop + Donations + Visitor information + ...
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More than fifty museums, galleries, local councils and other institutions trust and use Qi every day.
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Totally new, fresh, beautiful interface, using web standards and open source technologies. Qi is powerful, flexible, fast and easy to use.
Key features
Qi is designed for ultimate flexibility, collaboration, ease of use and speed for any type of information management.
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Dashboard
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Content Management
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Collection Management
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Digital Asset Management
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Shop
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Teams & Permissions
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Testimonials
Over fifty museums, collections, libraries, archives, private collectors, magazines and artist studios have chosen Qi to manage and publish some or all of their content and information.
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Dia Art Foundation
Qi provides Dia a content management system for our website and a collection management system on a single platform. It’s great not to hassle with an integration and with a small staff, we need the efficiencies gained by having all of this data in a single system. Our staff finds the interface intuitive and easy to use. It offers a lot of flexibility which is necessary with multiple venues, diverse programs, and a mobile staff. We are starting our 8th year with Qi and are glad we chose it.
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Fleming Collection
I find Qi very simple, user-friendly, and very intuitive. The process of creating it was also great - I had everything wanted to include in it, but working with Cristiano and Claire, they were able to suggest brilliant ways of incorporating these things into structures which would work, and suggested extras which hadn't even occurred to me, but ended up being really useful. The things I like about it is how easy it is to use in comparison to other database systems I have used in the past.
Brittany Harbidge
Website and Collections Manager
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Art UK
Qi’s flexibility allows us to speedily manage multiple collections, providing a sophisticated user journey when travelling between different hierarchies of data. The intuitive interface is accessible to the full range of user, from the basic to the highly specialised. It’s a fantastic product – functional and beautifully designed.
Daniel Whibley
Head of Editorial and Production
Clients
The following organisations are among the many that have adopted Qi.
Detailed specifications
Download detailed specifications document.
Flexibility
- Ability to configure cluster of nodes for multiple organisations
- Ability to configure nodes, types of content and fields
- Customisable search fields
- Ability to adapt to any data structure and design
- Complete customisation of content types and relationships
- Extensible content types and nodes
- Ability to re-use content and assets
- Support for any character set / UTF-8
- Interface localisation in any language
- Metadata, classification and tagging
- Support for multiple sites/repositories within the same database
User Interface
- Dashboard with quick search and links
- Universal full-text indexing and search, with results sorted by relevance
- Quick access to frequently used content
- Browse hierarchical tree of records
- Flexible and customisable input screens and tabs
- Flexible, customisable field types and validation rules
- Support for drag-and-drop features
- Support for friendly URLs
- Support for comments, task assignment and notes between editors
- WYSIWYG Editor, based on web standards
- Drag-and-drop to upload
Content Management
- Create multilingual content & translation workflow
- Shop dashboard with analytics
- Shop management (Products, memberships, donations & tickets)
- Content scheduling
- Cascading metadata
- Configuration editor
- Relationship management
- Content packages
- Multiple repositories and support for multiple languages within the same repository
- Reporting in Word, Excel and PDFNew
- Web-based administration
- User and Group permission manager per cluster
- User and Group permission manager per content type
- User and Group permission manager per individual field
Asset Management
- Create media catalogues New
- Team permissions for reading and writing catalogues
- Upload multiple files
- Associate images with files
- Associate images and documents with audio and video
- Display meta-file information
- Zoom images
- Preview audio and video
- Complete document and asset management (Images, Documents, Video and Audio)
- Automatic resizing of images and thumbnail generator
- Upload Word, Excel, PDF and more than 400 file types
Performance and Scalability
- REST API in XML/JSON to integrate with third-parties
- Native integration with Elasticsearch
- Advanced multi-layered caching using Memchache
- Support for shared, dedicated, cloud and multi-tier environments
- Support for database replication
- Support for load balancers and scale-on-demand environments
- Metadata Standards Support
- Mobile support
- UTF-8 support
- WAI Compliant
- Customisable support for LIDO/Dublin Core
- Support for OAI-PMH
Security
- SSL Support
- Audit trail and versioning
- Content Approval and Workflow
- Granular, role-based Permissions
- Statistics of login history and activity
- Support for SSO and multi-factor authentication
Advanced features
- Spectrum 5 compliant
- Fully de-normalised content available for export
- Boolean searches New
- Configurable high-priority search fields and criteria and scoring for search by relevance New
- Integrated LOD authorities, including AAT, Geonames, VIAF, Wikidata, Library of Congress and anyone else with an API
- Create library records from ISBN
- Configurable approval workflows
- Mobile movements control with companion iOS App
Web publishing
- Integrated web publishing module
- Availability of REST API and Elasticsearch for integration with other CMSes
- Direct publishing from the CMS, without exporting to other systems
- Keepthinking (creators of Qi) can design an award-winning website for you
Technology
We offer: training programmes, comprehensive documentation, in-application help, modular front-end framework and RESTful API
Web Server
- Apache 2 (Recommended)
Programming languages
- Back end: PHP 7.4, based on the CodeIgniter 3.1 MVC framework
- Front end: HTML5 with CSS3
Database server
- MySQL version 5.7 or greater
Interface languages
- English
- German
- Dutch
- Swedish
- Norwegean
- Finnish
- Any other language on request
Accessibility
- Compliant with WAI Level AAA guidelines
Web browser support
- Microsoft Edge (latest 3 versions)
- Google Chrome (latest 3 versions)
- Firefox (latest 3 versions)
- Safari (latest 3 versions)
- Mobile Safari (latest 3 versions)
- Mobile Opera (latest 3 versions)
Sara Tucker
IT Director