The Digital Collection Builder (DCB) is an open-source software application that makes it easy for libraries and other organizations with digital collections to provide online access to their unique resources. Canadiana.org has made DCB available to assist institutions with describing their content using common metadata standards and providing the ability to easily contribute the metadata to the Canadiana.org national index and other search portals.
Artefactual Systems is the lead developer of the DCB application. DCB is open-source software and available as a free download at the dcb-gcn.canadiana.org website.
DCB Hosting for $125/month
If your organization is not able to install your own copy of DCB, Artefactual Systems can host it on our servers for $125/month. This includes:- one DCB application instance
- 100 GB of digital object storage
- $1/GB for additional storage
- unlimited users
- daily backup
- DCB release upgrades
- includes initial set-up of default application configuration
- additional customization work available at $125/hour
- legacy data migration available at $125/hour (note: Dublin Core, EAD and EAC XML import available by default)
DCB Development and Support
If your organization needs assistance in using or customizing the DCB software we provide the following support services:- On-site installation or off-site hosting
- Training and technical support
- Customization and new feature development
Through the flexibility of the underlying Qubit Toolkit, DCB is easily configured to:
- use other professional or institutional descriptive standards
- serve as a multi-institutional search portal
- act as an access interface for a digital preservation system
Please contact us if you would like any further information about our DCB development, support and hosting services.