All arts and culture organizations, regardless of size, deserve domain specific strategies and quality services to manage their digital holdings.
Our Approach
Poplar works with museums, archives, and special collections by collaborating within a three-part framework we call Secure / Organize / Share.
Secure
We keep your collections safe by auditing current digital storage and then provide options for backup using local, network, and remote storage.
Organize
We work with you to bring order to your materials by refining metadata schemas, defining media workflows, select platforms, and adopt the best practices needed for your team to manage your collection effectively over time.
Share
We help you tell your stories with an online version of your holdings that serves as a resource for your organization, its members, and your community-at-large.
Want to know more about our approach? We break it down here.
Our Services
Preparing your holdings for digital access is only part of the effort, you also need reliable infrastructure, data migration, and ongoing support.
Infrastructure
We provide dedicated servers configured with the latest versions of media processing libraries required by most open source applications in the Cultural Heritage space.
Data Migration
Moving metadata and media from one system to another can be a challenge that we make easy with proper planning, testing, and data redundancy all along the way so that nothing is lost.
Ongoing Support
Whether you are hosting with us or not, we provide expertise to keep your Collection Management System running smoothly.
Would like more details on our services? You can learn more here.