Omeka as a Tool for Developing Digital Projects
Cynthia Tobar, Mina Rees LibraryCUNY Digital Humanities Initiative Meeting
2/9/11
What are your options?
Image courtesy of Omeka.org accessed February 7, 2011.
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What is it?
• Omeka is a free, open source web publishing system for online digital archives and was developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
• It allows users to publish cultural heritage objects, extend its functionality with themes and plugins, and curate online exhibits with digital objects.
Who Can Use It?
Scholars, librarians, archivists, educators, or individuals who wants to share collections and exhibits with a wide range of
users
How Does it Work?
-Feature List http://omeka.org/files/docs/Featurelist.pdf -Project Planning Case Studies: a good tool to get you thinking about how to organize an Omeka site. http://omeka.org/codex/Project_Planning_Case_Studies -Screencasts http://omeka.org/codex/Screencasts -Web video http://vimeo.com/6401343
Opening of the Erie Canalhttp://library.gc.cuny.edu/erie_canal/items
Item-level record
Omeka may not be for everyone
Omeka is best suited for projects with a sizable digital collection.
Expect to provide more technical support for Omeka-based
projects than for WordPress or wiki-based projects.
Decide how much time you want to focus on the creation of
standardized and complete metadata.
Decide how to deal with primary source materials.
List of resourceshttp://omeka.org/
http://omeka.org/showcase/
http://omeka.org/codex/Plugins/ExhibitBuilder
http://omeka.org/codex/How_Might_You_Use_Omeka http://omeka.org/codex/Documentation
http://omeka.org/files/docs/Featurelist.pdf
http://omeka.org/codex/Project_Planning_Case_Studies
http://omeka.org/codex/Screencasts
http://vimeo.com/6401343