Features
What Obscura Catalog does, function by function. The details of each are in the documentation.
Import your image folders: each file is referenced where it is, with its SHA-256 digest, then sorted, rated and found again.
Describe an artist's body of work the way a catalogue raisonné does: works, agents and attributions, prints, exhibitions, publications, and provenance.
Obscura Catalog builds on the EXIF and XMP metadata of images, and lets you enrich it.
Export your catalogue in formats recognized by heritage institutions, or as a spreadsheet.
Obscura Catalog issues certificates of authenticity: signed archival PDFs, recorded in a register, verifiable offline and online.
In pictures
Screenshots taken in Obscura Catalog 0.10.0, on a fictional demo catalogue.
Principles
The formats of heritage institutions and imaging software.
LIDO and CIDOC-CRM, two standards maintained by the ICOM CIDOC committee, to exchange with institutions.
EXIF and XMP, the metadata read by cameras and imaging software.
A CSV export that every spreadsheet can read.
Works, agents, attributions, prints, exhibitions, publications, and provenance.
A certificate of authenticity issued by the app.
A macOS app from the Obscura Flow ecosystem.
Next step
Obscura Catalog is available for macOS. Download it from the Obscura member area, or write to us to learn more.