Omeka: Open Archives and Exhibits for Anyone

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