What?
Qubit is a fully web-based toolkit that allows institutions such as archives and libraries to manage and host web-based collections of information resources. Qubit supports multi-lingual and multi-repository collections.
The project objective is to provide an easy-to-use, flexible toolkit that complies with open standards (e.g. Dublin Core, ICA-ISAD, EAD, MODS, METS) and is developed using an open architecture that takes advantage of emerging web-based tools and practices.
Qubit is designed to be a generic toolkit that enables institutions or projects to make community-specific distributions (e.g. ICA-AtoM, Digital Collection Builder, Archivematica).
Qubit is built using the symfony PHP5 framework and a number of other open-source libraries. See the System architecture wiki page for more information about technical architecture and software requirements.
Who?
Qubit is the collaborative effort of related but separate open-source software projects that have decided to work together to leverage time, knowledge and resources. Each of these projects is using and contributing to Qubit as the underlying toolkit to build their own applications. Please visit the respective project websites for more information:
A number of different people have contributed time and skills to the Qubit project. They are listed on the Contributors wiki page.
The day-to-day technical and project management for the Qubit project is provided by Artefactual Systems.
More?
Online documentation is available in the project wiki hosted at qubit-toolkit.org.
