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What is Qubit?
Qubit is an open-source software toolkit that allows institutions such as archives, libraries, museums, and art galleries to manage and host web-based collections of information resources. Qubit supports multi-lingual and multi-repository collections.
Objective
The project goal is to provide an easy-to-use, flexible toolkit that complies with open standards (e.g. Dublin Core, ICA-ISAD, EAD, MODS, CDWA, 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).
Architecture
Qubit is a fully web-based application built using the symfony PHP 5 framework and a number of other open-source libraries. See the system architecture page for more information about technical architecture and software requirements.
License
Qubit is made available under a GPL version 2 license
Who is involved?
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 page.
The day-to-day technical and project management for the Qubit project is provided by Artefactual Systems
