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A presentation to the PLVN Digital Content Seminar on Wednesday the 26th of March, 2014. Tom Edwards - Coordinator, Library Systems Technology at Wyndham City Libraries shares his experience with implementing the Omeka CMS for a local history website project (www.wyndhamhistory.net.au)
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Omeka Adventures with a local history portal
Tom Edwards
● The Wyndham History project ● Digital history platforms ● OAI-PMH rant ● Why Omeka? ● A tour of features ● Our Omeka launch ● Questions
What we’ll cover
The Wyndham History project Two year project, commissioned by Wyndham City to celebrate 150 years
since Wyndham was proclaimed a Shire.
Project included a book ($30 - buy one today!) and a website.
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Some platforms...
ContentDM
No matter which you choose...
… Make sure they will play nicely with
eg. make sure they can be harvested
as an OAI-PMH repository.
An illustration...
Wyndhamhistory.net.au
Built using Omeka CMS Trove.nla.gov.au
Weekly OAI-PMH harvest
An illustration...
An illustration...
An illustration...
Why ?
● OAI-PMH repository
● Emphasis on end user-generated content
(although more on this shortly...)
● Great map support
● Supports responsive designs
● Open source and built on standard
Apache/PHP/MySQL with Zend framework
● Good user community and well supported
with plugins
User generated content
eg.
http://hurricanearchive.org/
Not yet available in the current version of
Omeka (2.1.1) however...
Great map support
eg.
http://neatline.org/neatline-in-
action/
Need pretty good bandwidth to showcase to its
full potential
Responsive design
How we got ready for cataloguing
● Prepared a cataloguing policy based on
Dublin Core requirements, included:
○ construction of local thesaurus
○ creating controlled vocabularies on Omeka
where possible
● Mapped MARC fields (from existing historical
photos on catalogue) to Dublin Core
Elements, used:
○ MARCEdit (Export tab-delimited records)
○ CSV Import plugin on Omeka
A tough launch decision...
Omeka 1.5
(End user
contribution)
Omeka 2.x
(Responsive
design)
Our Omeka instance
Omeka 1.5
(End user
contribution)
Omeka 2.x
(Responsive
design)
● 441 published items (635 in total)
● 6 x digitized oral histories (MP3 files to
stream) - more to come
● Neatline map of Truganina State School
● Interactive timeline
● Flexible searching options
○ Keyword
○ Browse
○ Map-based
○ Advanced (boolean, additional filters etc.)
Omeka 1.5
(End user
contribution)
Omeka 2.x
(Responsive
design)
Omeka 1.5
(End user
contribution)
Omeka 2.x
(Responsive
design)
Omeka 1.5
(End user
contribution)
Omeka 2.x
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design)
Omeka 1.5
(End user
contribution)
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(Responsive
design)
Omeka 1.5
(End user
contribution)
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design)
Omeka 1.5
(End user
contribution)
Omeka 2.x
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design)
Omeka 1.5
(End user
contribution)
Omeka 2.x
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design)
Omeka 1.5
(End user
contribution)
Omeka 2.x
(Responsive
design)
Omeka 1.5
(End user
contribution)
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design)
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contribution)
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design)
Onwards and upwards!
Omeka 1.5
(End user
contribution)
Omeka 2.x
(Responsive
design)
● CONTRIBUTION PLUGIN!
● Comprehensive, thoroughly researched
Werribee WW1 ANZAC exhibit to coincide
with centenary.
● More maps! including:
○ Original annotated shire surveyor maps
○ Charming hand-drawn maps of
pastoralist estates (to overlay on google
map layer?)
○ flora/fauna survey results of werribee
river association
Omeka 1.5
(End user
contribution)
Omeka 2.x
(Responsive
design) “Eric Davis, Alex Muir and Eliza Davis.,” Wyndham History, accessed March 18, 2014, http://www.wyndhamhistory.net.au/items/show/1192.
Questions?
