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

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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

Thank you!

Cynthia TobarMetadata Librarian

ctobar@gc.cuny.edu