Whirl-i-gig is the developer of CollectiveAccess, an open-source collections management and presentation software designed for museums, archives, and special collections. As it is highly flexible and easily customized, it is also increasingly used by libraries, non-profits, private collectors, artist studios, performing arts organizations and other groups around the world. At its core, CollectiveAccess is a relational database that enables complex cataloging, powerful searching and browsing and nuanced web-based collection discovery.Whirl-i-gig also develops Morphobank, a web application for conducting phylogenetics or cladistics research on morphology.Whirl-i-gig is based in Brooklyn, NY.