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Public Collections Gallery

Collections provide a way to dynamically combine and group multiple individual crawls and uploads into a contextual, unified archive replay experience.

With Public Collections Gallery, you can create a dedicated page that showcases all public Collections in one place, allowing you to personalize, curate, and share your web archives with the world!

The enable public collections gallery toggle is located in the org's Settings tab within your account. Follow these steps to activate the Public Collections Gallery.

  1. Log in to your Browsertrix account

  2. In your org's settings, click enable public collections gallery and save

  3. You can share the link to your Public Collections Page from either copying from the org's settings, or by clicking on the copy button next to "Visit public collections gallery" from your dashboard.

Note: If you choose to hide the gallery later, you can go back to the setting and set the toggle to off at any time. The gallery will still be available for logged in users to preview, but the public page will be hidden. Public Collections will be treated the same as Unlisted when the public gallery is turned off.

The Public Collection Gallery page will automatically have the title of your Org. You can customize this page by including a Description and your org's Website by adding them from your org's Settings of your account. The Gallery URL is always based on the Org URL, if you change one, the other changes as well.

For example, if your org URL ends with /my-org, than the Public Collections Gallery will be made available at /explore/my-org.

Add Collections

If you don’t have any public Collections yet, on the right side of the section you'll see three different icons.

  1. Click the asterisk icon in order to see all your Collections.

  2. Click the edit button on the specific Collection you want to share

  3. In that Collection's Sharing tab, change its visibility from the default Private to Public and save

  4. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 as needed to share all the Collections you want

  5. When you're done, click the globe icon in order to see all your public Collections

  6. Click on “Visit Public Collections Gallery”, and now you can share your gallery with the world!

Remove Collections

You'll take similar steps from Add Collections to also remove Collections from the Public Collections Gallery

  1. Within the Public Collections Gallery, click the edit button on the specific Collection you want to remove

  2. In that Collection's Sharing tab, change its visibility from the default Public to Private, save, and that Collection should be removed from the Public Collections Gallery!

Customize Collections

The Presentation and Sharing page provides further details for options on how to present and share Collections in your Public Collections Gallery. Your Public Collection Gallery page will automatically have the title of your org. You can customize this page by including a Description and your org's Website by adding them from your org's Settings of your account.

Description

A Description about your Collection is not required, but it is useful information to share additional context and details of your collection with your org team members or the public by writing a description.

You can edit the Description as long as its within 150 characters, which is roughly between 90 words and 150 words with spaces included in the character count. The Description supports basic text formatting like headings, bold and italicized text, lists, and links.

Website

Link to your org's (or your personal) website so viewers can visit from your Public Collections Gallery page.

how your Collection appears to the public by clicking the edit button in each collection to:

  • Name it and add a description — include emojis if that’s your style 😉

  • Select a thumbnail to represent it: Choose between a page screenshot and a placeholder

  • Choose the initial view for your collection.