The colophon: who runs Curatorbook
Volunteer registrars at historical societies keep irreplaceable records in whatever is to hand, often a spreadsheet nobody else can open. This site is an attempt at something better that still asks for no account, no subscription and no upload: an accession register, an object catalogue and the printing that goes with them.
Jump to the catalogue, or read how to accession museum objects.
Which guidance the guides stand on
The numbering rules, the register fields and the receipt wording are not improvised. 7 guides are written from 15 published pages and documents, among them collections-management guidance from Collections Trust, Museums Association of Saskatchewan, Oklahoma Museums Association and the vendor documentation for the software the comparison guide weighs. Each guide ends with its own list of those pages, with publisher, edition and a link out, and every rule in the body is a paraphrase rather than a quotation: the procedures stay where their publishers put them.
Everything else on the page comes from this site's own engine instead of from a document. The worked examples run a demo collection through the real numbering, register and label code, which is why the labels guide can state the exact count for each of the 6 sheet layouts rather than an approximation.
Who runs it
Curatorbook is not the product of a museum-technology company. A single independent developer builds and runs it, and also runs Rootdossier for citizenship-by-descent paperwork, Hutchline for rabbit, cavy and cat pedigrees and Judgegrid for science fair judging. Shared code explains the shared look.
The guides go out over the name of the site with no individual byline, and the structured data names the site's organization, Curatorbook, as their author. No curator, conservator or registrar is credited, and no job title or professional accreditation is claimed. Where a guide and a published procedure disagree, the procedure is the better authority and the guide is the thing to correct; the support address is at the foot of every page.
What it refuses to do
Curatorbook keeps records; it is not legal advice. It ships no deed of gift or other legal form, and it does not certify that your procedures meet any published standard. It will not tell you whether your museum holds title to an object, whether a loan has expired, or whether a deaccession is defensible; those are questions for your governing body and, where money or ownership is involved, for a lawyer. It is not an accreditation scheme and signs nothing off. It is not a backup service: the file lives in this browser, so a lost device is a lost catalogue unless you have saved the catalogue file somewhere of your own. And it is not a public collections portal, since nothing you enter is published anywhere.