Qi by Keepthinking Ltd. - Profile
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Product name
Qi
Vendor name
Keepthinking Ltd.
Vendor overview
Website URL
www.qi-cms.com
www.keepthinking.com
Head office
38-40 Southwark Street
London SE1 1UN
United Kingdom
Year founded: 2003
Telephone number: +44 20 7490 5337
Email: info@keepthinking.it Contact Keepthinking's team for general information.
Contact person: Cristiano Bianchi
Product overview
Product description
Qi is a web-based collections, information and asset management solution that allows organisations of any size to manage, publish and share their collection and any other content. Qi can be easily customised to adapt to any type of content and to serve it to diverse audiences, across any number of channels and platforms. Qi is designed for ultimate flexibility, collaboration, ease of use and speed. Qi is Spectrum compliant from the onset and supports every other major international standard such as CDWA, RDA, ISAD(G), MARC 21 and more, meaning that any type of collection can be accommodated. Qi is geared towards management as well as publication and sharing of information, integrating multiple repositories and removing the need for middleware.
Disciplines supported
Any museum, archive and library collection is supported, including art, architecture, archaeology, natural sciences, etc.
Product launch date
2011
Product history
Qi generated from the 18-year experience of Keepthinking to design and develop award winning collections online for museums and archives.
Future development
Fully integrated e-commerce and ticketing.
Demo version
Contact us at info@keepthinking.it.Contact Keepthinking's team for a demo.
Support
Support methods
Email, telephone.
Support language(s)
English
Support availability and hours
7 a.m. to 11 p.m. UK time.
Support fees
Contact us at info@keepthinking.it Contact Keepthinking's team for support inquiries..
Client support network
Not applicable.
Training
In person and remotely.
System updates and maintenance
New release twice a year in April and October.
Cost
Pricing
Contact us at info@keepthinking.it Contact Keepthinking's team for pricing inquiries..
Maintenance costs
Contact us at info@keepthinking.it. Contact Keepthinking's team for maintenance cost inquiries.
Additional fees
Data conversion is chargeable based on complexity.
System specifications
Operating systems supported
All, as Qi is a web application.
Underlying database
MySQL
Platform(s)
Mac, PC, Linux, Android and iOS tablets.
Hardware requirements
Regular Mac, PC or tablet.
Staff requirements
No requirement for technical staff.
Plug-ins and/or modules available
Integration with other systems possible with Qi REST API. Integration with Elasticsearch for enterprise search capabilities.
Third-party requirements
Not applicable.
Interoperability
Native REST API and integration with Elasticsearch out of the box.
Accessibility
Compliant with W3C WAI Accessibility Level AA.
Customization
Qi is fully customisable, with the ability to create new tables and fields directly by customers.
Web integration capabilities
Cloud functionality
- Server location
- Anywhere. We prefer to use Digital Ocean or Amazon AWS, but flexible.
- Security protocols
- HTTPS over SSL.
- Typical or average uptime
- 100%
- Back-end maintenance procedures and downtime
- Scheduled, every 3 weeks.
Browsers supported
All latest three versions of all standard compliant web browsers.
Web-based access for data entry
Full
Web publishing platform
Museums Sites www.museumssites.com, which can be customised and extended to suit any requirement.
Linked open data functionality
Full support, including Getty, Library of Congress, WorldCat, Geonames integration (among others). JSON REST API and Elasticsearch for publishing and ingesting data from other sources.
User groups and security
User profiles
All access is managed at group level. Each user can be a member of one or more Groups.
User groups
Granular access to each table and field in the system, read/write and approve.
Visitor profiles
Read-only profile can be created.
Installations
Not applicable (we don’t understand the question).
Audit trails and/or edit history
Full history of changes is recorded and available for every content type.
Offline access
Not applicable.
Privacy features
Not applicable (we don’t understand the question).
Data migration and stability
Import formats
- XML
- CSV
- Excel
- SQL
- JSON
Export formats
- XML
- Word
- Excel
- SQL
- JSON
Backups
- SQL
Standards and schemas
Metadata schemas
- CDWA
- Spectrum
- CHIN
- ISAD(G)
- DACS
And any other.
Data content standards (cataloguing rules)
No response.
Vocabulary standards
- Getty AAT
- ULAN
- TGN
- CONA
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Any other authority with open/closed API or export format.
Local terminology lists
Any number of local authority lists is possible and can be extended with external vocabularies.
Accreditation
Spectrum 5 compliant (since 2011).
Data entry and content
Media upload/linking
Integrated digital assets management system.
Media formats supported
Over 400 file types accepted.
Data entry features
- Copy and paste
- Yes
- Search and replace
- Yes
- Spellcheck
- Yes
- Bulk cataloguing
- Yes
- Batch edit
- Yes
- Batch location change
- Yes
- Duplicate record search
- Yes
- Template record
- Yes
- Date selection and formats
- Yes
- Mandatory fields
- Yes
- Others
- No response.
Spreadsheet editing view
Yes
Geographic mapping
Yes
Multilingual fields
Yes
Barcoding
Yes
Labelling
Yes
Search and reporting
Types of search supported
- Boolean queries
- Yes
- Query any field
- Yes
- Sort query results
- Based on any result field.
- Saving search results
- Yes, as packages.
- Filter search results
- Yes, searches can be nested.
- SQL-based search
- Not necessary and not supported.
- Export search results
- Yes, in XML, CSV, Word, Excel and JSON.
- Free-text (Google) searches
- Yes
- Search result views
- Yes
Multilingual searching
Yes
Report styles included
Yes
Report customization
Yes, using Word and Excel templates.
Report program
Integrated within the platform – no need for a separate reporting module.
Museum functions
Collections management function overview
No response.
Registration
Yes, Spectrum compliant and fully customisable.
Acquisitions
Yes, Spectrum compliant and fully customisable.
Inventory management
Yes, Spectrum compliant and fully customisable.
Internal tracking
Yes, Spectrum compliant and fully customisable.
External shipments
Yes, Spectrum compliant and fully customisable.
Cataloguing
Yes, Spectrum compliant and fully customisable.
Conservation
Yes, Spectrum compliant and fully customisable.
Curatorial research
Yes, Spectrum compliant and fully customisable.
Publications and printed material
Yes, Spectrum compliant and fully customisable.
Rights management and reproduction
Yes, Spectrum compliant and fully customisable.
Risk management and valuation
Yes, Spectrum compliant and fully customisable.
Exhibitions
Yes, Spectrum compliant and fully customisable.
Loan management
Yes, Spectrum compliant and fully customisable.
Deaccessions
Yes, Spectrum compliant and fully customisable.
Digital asset management
Yes, Spectrum compliant and fully customisable.
Additional features and functions
No response.
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