Heritage doesn't fit into a single system - until now.

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Heratio is the world's first fully integrated open-source platform for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. Built by archives professionals, available in 18 languages including 14 African languages, and free for any institution to adopt.

Heritage belongs to everyone. So should the tools that preserve it.

One platform

Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums in a single system. No more juggling tools that were never built to talk to each other.

Open source

Free to adopt, free to inspect, free to extend. AGPL-licensed and hosted by the people who use it.

African-rooted, globally relevant

Built in Africa. Adopted by institutions across continents. Localised in the languages your community actually reads.

Who it's for

Archives - ISAD(G), RiC-O, ISAAR, ISDIAH out of the box.
Libraries - MARC21 ingest, IIIF deep zoom, MODS export.
Museums - Spectrum 5.1 procedures, CIDOC CRM, condition reporting.
Galleries - Provenance, rights, exhibition workflows, marketplace.

Standards: ISAD(G) · RiC-O · ISAAR(CPF) · ISDIAH · Spectrum 5.1 · CIDOC CRM · MARC21 · MODS · Dublin Core · IIIF Image API 3.0 · Presentation API 3.0 · PREMIS · BagIt · OAI-PMH · OpenAPI · ODRL


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