About Our Software

A research + archive tool

• *Digital content management: Our software has been custom-designed to serve as a digital archive and cataloguing tool for artist studios, estates, foundations, and other arts institutions.

  • -Create links between artworks, publications, exhibitions, collectors, venues, institutions, and other relevant art world categories.
    
  • -Build artwork records with data fields such as title, date, medium, dimensions, inscriptions, editions, provenance, condition, installation instructions, and comments.
  • -Store multiple images and private documents in each record.

• Web-accessible: The software is available anywhere with an internet connection, on any web-enabled device.

• Unlimited storage: There are no storage limits, and the performance of your catalogue will not be affected by large data sets.

• Attention to your needs: Our software has been shaped by the feedback of multiple catalogue raisonné editors, researchers, and artist studio managers to determine the most useful, practical, and intuitive tools and features.

• Compatibility: We can help you to import existing databases and convert them to fit our fields without losing any of your information.

A publishing tool

• *Ready to publish? By entering information into our digital content management system, you are automatically preparing your content to be published for public view (should you decide to do so). Publish quickly, economically, and according to the schedule of your choosing.

  • -Publish to a selected audience only: Control your user group or make your content available to the wider public.
    
  • -Publish while withholding confidential information: Protect private portions of your database while sharing other sections with the public. You control what is published and what is archive-only.
    

• Flexible design: Customize the look and feel of your catalogue — including the homepage, artwork views, and all editorial pages.

• Ease of navigation: Our design features have all been rigorously tested to ensure ease of use.

• Multimedia content: Include any number of images, videos, audio clips, and other multimedia content.

• Real-time accuracy/real-time cataloguing: By updating provenance as well as exhibition and literature histories, you can maintain the accuracy of the content; you can also expand the catalogue to include newly discovered information and newly created artworks.

• *Assistance: Publishing digital catalogues raisonnés is our area of expertise and we are available to make the editing and publishing process as easy as possible.

The Artifex Press system is available for licensing. You can use it as is; we can customize it for your particular needs; we can help you to import existing data sets.

Contact us at info@artifexpress.com to set up a live tour of our software.