Metavus is about collecting, describing, and disseminating resources online, putting the power and control in your hands, to help you build and maintain digital collections that meet your needs.
Key features of Metavus include:
-
Fully-configurable and extendable schemas and vocabularies for records, collections, events, pages, news, and users, giving you unlimited flexibility for describing and managing content.
-
Processing and data manipulation rules based on conditions and search parameter sets, giving you unlimited flexibility for modifying and tracking content.
-
Privileges based on content and user metadata, giving you unlimited options for granting and controlling access to content.
-
Plugin-based architecture, giving you unlimited opportunities to expand and enhance ways to ingest, manipulate, and disseminate content.
Metavus is designed to run on a web server with a LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack.
The minimum required PHP version is 7.4. The minimum required MySQL version is 5.0. (MariaDB may also be used, in place of MySQL.) (PHP 7.4 was released in 2019, so most servers put online in the last five years or that are older but actively-maintained should work fine.)
Installation of Metavus usually takes less than five minutes. Steps:
-
Download the Metavus distribution package.
-
Create a new database for Metavus on your web server, and a MySQL (or MariaDB) user who has all privileges for accessing and modifying that database.
-
Unzip the Metavus package and upload the files to the desired location on your web server.
-
Access your new Metavus installation using a web browser (go to, for example, "http://example.com" or "http://example.com/collection/", depending on your domain and which directory you uploaded the files to), and follow the instructions on that page to complete the installation.
Metavus is licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License. Please see the included LICENSE.txt file for details.
A live demonstration version of Metavus is available online: Metavus Demo Site
Metavus is maintained by the Internet Scout Research Group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
For more information, please see https://metavus.net