omeka: open archives and exhibits for anyone
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OmekaOpen Archives and Exhibits for Anyone
What is Omeka?✤ Web-based publishing software to create archives
and web-based exhibits of materials.
✤ Uses PHP and MySQL
✤ Dublin core metadata
✤ Plugins allow for extensibility; Themes allow for design customization
Omeka Installation✤ Download latest from omeka.org
✤ FTP to your server.
✤ Requirements at omeka.org/codex/
Omeka Items✤ Dublin Core metadata for all items
✤ Customizable item types, with fields
✤ Many files per item
✤ Tags, collection, other metadata from plugins
Omeka Collections
Omeka Item Types✤ Twelve pre-made item types
✤ Can customize fields for each type
✤ Can create unique types
Omeka Users✤ Super - Can do anything on the system
✤ Admin - Can do anything except access the Settings button.
✤ Contributor - Can add items, and edit their own items, but cannot delete items
✤ Researcher - Can see non-public items, but cannot add/edit/delete items.
Omeka Themes✤ Easily change look/feel of your public site
✤ Documented helpers to retrieve data
✤ Standards-compliant HTML and CSS
Omeka Plugins✤ Plugin API allows for additional functionality
beyond core features
✤ Plugins include ExhibitBuilder, SimplePages, Geolocation, various import/export plugins.
Import✤ OAI-PMH
✤ CSV
✤ EAD
✤ Zotero
Export/Share✤ OAI-PMH
✤ RSS2, Atom
✤ Dublin Core XML, Omeka XML
Hosted at Omeka.net✤ Same core features as stand-alone
✤ Different options based on plan
Try out theOmeka Sandbox!
omeka.org/codex/Try_Omeka_Before_Installing
Learn more at
Omeka.org