2.
CMS (Content Management System) designed for digital
archives
Easy-to-use digital collection of objects
Best for visual archives (photographs, paintings,
manuscript/page images)
Users are scholars, librarians, museum curators, archivists, and
students
For “extended, uncovering, and complementing physical
collections” (Meloni 2).
Introduction to Omeka
3.
Is Omeka Right for Me?
Do you want to:
Easily to display items
online without
design/programming
experience?
Create narratives about
objects?
Preserve metadata?
Then YES!
Do you want to:
Make a blog?
Display items without a
narrative?
Do a complicated
search of your
database?
Then PROBABLY NOT!
4.
Item: The basic unit of the site (photograph, text,
person, company, etc.)
Collection: Items that have been grouped together by
theme
Exhibit: A narrative tour of items (scholarly essay)
Metadata: Information about each item (item size,
author, date of creation, etc.)
Omeka Terminology
5.
Plugins are modules that give your Omeka site
additional functionality.
Recommended Plugins:
Neatline
CSV Import
Docs Viewer
Simple Pages
Omeka Plugins
6.
Omeka.net vs Omeka.org
Omeka.net
Hosts website for you
Free account (with
minimal functionality)
Paid accounts with
more features
Access to some plugins
(but not Neatline)
Design has minimal
customization
Omeka.org
Need access to a web
server (contact Aram
Agajanian)
Free for user
Access to many plugins
(including Neatline)
More customizable
design
7. 19th Century Disability: Cultures & Contexts
http://www.nineteenthcenturydisability.org/
“Interdisciplinary collection of primary texts and images
about physical and cognitive disability in the long
nineteenth century”
Directed by Karen Bourrier (University of Calgary), with
22 other scholars contributing
60 items
Grouped by theme as well as chronology
Sample Omeka Site
