Pictoria One is a local-first image catalogue for art historians and independent collections. Controlled vocabularies, international authority identifiers and full-text search — without the weight of institutional systems.
In active development · No cloud, no account, no tracking
Features
Hierarchical taxonomies for work types, periods and styles — from Antiquity to Contemporary, painting to architecture.
Fields for Getty ULAN, AAT and TGN, Wikidata and ICONCLASS keep authority identifiers close to every record.
Instant search across artists, works, locations and notes. Browse by artist, place, type or period as a tree.
Drag-and-drop uploads, automatic thumbnails, and per-image metadata: source, licence, view type, quality.
Your metadata stays in one SQLite file and your images in local folders. No cloud account and no one between you and your research.
Gallery and comparison views place reproductions on a neutral ground, the way a curator would insist on.
Standards
Records are structured around the reference systems museums and universities already use, so your catalogue remains interoperable and citable.
Philosophy
Collection software has grown into infrastructure that demands a systems administrator. Pictoria One takes the opposite path.
Your catalogue metadata lives in a database file you can copy, back up and carry. Your images remain in folders you control.
Hierarchical vocabularies and clear cataloguing levels bring consistency without turning every record into a configuration exercise.
No server stack, no plugins to reconcile, no updates that break your theme. Open it and catalogue.
Early access
Pictoria One is in active development. Write to be among the first to use it.
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