Museum skeletal collection management with NAGPRA repatriation workflows baked in from day one, not bolted on as an afterthought.
OssariumOS replaces the spreadsheet nightmares that every natural history museum is quietly suffering through right now. It tracks provenance, custody chain, repatriation status, and federal compliance obligations for every element in a skeletal or osteological collection. When a tribal nation files a claim, you actually know where the remains are and can respond in hours instead of months.
- Full chain-of-custody tracking from excavation site to current storage location
- Supports over 340 distinct skeletal element classifications with configurable taxonomic hierarchies
- Native integration with the National NAGPRA Program's online reporting portal
- Automated federal compliance deadline tracking with escalating alert workflows
- Provenance documentation engine that handles incomplete, contested, and redacted records without lying about it
Re:discovery Proficio, Argus Collections Manager, PastPerfect Online, Axiell EMu, CollectiveAccess, TribalLink API, FederalGrants.gov Data Feed, Esri ArcGIS, ORCID Researcher Registry, OsteoBase Cloud, Salesforce Nonprofit, S3-compatible cold storage
OssariumOS is built as a set of loosely coupled microservices coordinated through a lightweight internal event bus — each domain (provenance, compliance, custody, reporting) owns its own data and publishes changes that other services can react to independently. The primary datastore is MongoDB, which handles the repatriation transaction ledger and ensures audit-log integrity across concurrent claim workflows. A Redis layer manages long-term provenance document storage, keeping historical records instantly queryable no matter how deep the archive goes. The frontend is a server-rendered React application that talks exclusively to a versioned REST API, so institutions can build their own tooling on top without waiting for me to prioritize their feature requests.
🟢 Production. Actively maintained.
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