Kurbits — Documentation

Kurbits is an archival information and collection management system for archives, special collections, and museums. It helps you describe, organise, locate, and track your holdings.

Key concepts

Resources are the archival units you describe — fonds, series, files, items, objects. They are arranged in a hierarchy and described using ISAD(G)-aligned fields.

Agents are the people, organisations, and families that created, owned, or are otherwise associated with your holdings. They correspond to authority records.

Locations are the physical places where objects are stored — buildings, rooms, shelves, cabinets. The location system tracks where things are and where they have been.

Classifications are controlled vocabulary schemes used to categorise resources — subject schemes, record types, administrative structures.

Flags are internal workflow markers for resources that need attention — metadata issues, conservation concerns, rights questions.

Acquisitions covers the intake workflow: submission agreements with depositors, deliveries of material, and the accessions that result.