Collections

Sharing and publishing collections

A collection's visibility runs from fully private to publicly browsable. This guide covers the visibility levels, custom share URLs, featuring on the public gallery, and the attribution viewers see.

Last updated 2026-05-29

Sharing is controlled from the Sharing tab of collection settings (see Collection settings for the full tab tour).

The Sharing tab with visibility options, custom slug, and featuring controls
The Sharing tab — visibility, a custom slug, and featuring.

Visibility levels

  • Private — only members of the owning workspace can open it. Access follows workspace roles (see Workspaces).
  • Unlisted — anyone with the link can open it, but it doesn’t appear in the public browse gallery or search.
  • Public — listed in the public Browse gallery, discoverable by search and tag, and openable by anyone.

Changing visibility takes effect immediately. Making a collection public exposes its images and metadata to the world — review the data first.

Custom share URL

Set a slug to get a readable URL (for example /collections/my-collection-name) instead of the random collection ID. Slugs are easier to share in talks, papers, and links. The original ID URL keeps working.

Featuring

Curators can feature a public collection so it surfaces prominently on the public home page and at the top of Browse. Featuring uses a rank you set on the Sharing tab; unfeature by clearing it.

Public collections appear at /browse, where visitors can:

  • Switch between a tile grid and a list.
  • Sort by featured, most recent, or most popular.
  • Filter by tag and search by name/description.

Click through to a collection’s public detail page, then into the viewer.

Attribution and licence

Viewers of a public collection see an attribution bar with the source name, link, licence, and any required statement. Set these on the General tab (see Collection settings). For catalogue-sourced collections (the Met, IIIF, etc.) attribution is populated from the source on import.

View count

For public collections, the Sharing tab shows a page-view count so owners can gauge reach.

See also