Workshop on Omeka S for DCMI 2017

1. Using Omeka S To Create and
Share Cultural Heritage Linked
Open Data
DCMI International Conference, Oct 28 2017
Dr Patrick Murray-John
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History
and New Media, George Mason University
@patrick_mj
patrickmjchnm@gmail.com

2. Using Omeka S To Create and
Share Cultural Heritage Linked
Open Data
● Omeka
Classic and
S core
principles
● Omeka S
core
principles
● Hands-on
time!
● More
questions?
● Final
questions
and feedback
● JSON-LD API

3. Omeka Origins
Need for (small) Cultural Heritage Institutions to
easily publish on the web
Quickly grew beyond that audience

4. Omeka Core Principles
● Easy web publishing
● Facilitate good metadata

5. Omeka S Origins
Widespread adoption called for easier deployment
of many sites
Linked Open Data for Libraries Archives and
Museums
Lessons learned from Omeka Classic
Newer web technologies

6. Omeka S Core Principles
● Complete rewrite with modern technologies
● One installation – Many sites
● Data sharing
– Linked Open Data
– Connectors to Dspace, Fedora

7. Omeka Classic vs Omeka S Items

8. Omeka S Vocabularies
● Dublin Core
● Dublin Core Types
● Friend of a Friend
● Bibliography Ontology

9. Omeka S Vocabularies
● Easy to import new RDF and OWL
● BUT, it gets simplified
– No sub-properties or sub-classes are recognized
– No inferencing

10. Omeka S and Properties

11. Omeka S Items and Media

12. Omeka S Installation Item Pool

13. Omeka S Items and Item Sets

14. Omeka S site building
● Create a page
● Add the page to the navigation

15. Omeka S add a site

16. Omeka S Site Resources

17. Omeka S Site Resources

18. Omeka S add a page

19. Omeka S add page navigation

20. Omeka S site building
● Create a page
– Block types, with their own settings
● Add the page to the navigation
– Settings also in play

21. Questions? Comments?

22. Hands-on time!
● Create a new Site
– Add a page
– Add it to the navigation
– View the public page
● Create a new Item
– Add metadata
– Add media
– Add it to an Item Set

23. Omeka S Public API
● REST endpoint at {your domain}/api
– {your domain}/api/{resource}
● List resources /api/api_resources
● Resources
– items
– item-sets
– media
● (Some are Omeka S-specific)

24. Omeka S Public API

25. Omeka S Public API

26. Omeka S Public API

27. Omeka S Public API

28. Using Omeka S To Create and
Share Cultural Heritage Linked
Open Data
Questions? Issues? Compliments?
https://github.com/omeka/omeka-s
https://forum.omeka.org/c/omeka-s
patrickmjchnm@gmail.com
Dr Patrick Murray-John
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History
and New Media
@patrick_mj