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

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.

The Browse gallery

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.