2. Objective
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Appreciate the broad nature of the term 'Curation'
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Collecting, Organising and Displaying
Private Sector - Carefully Selecting and Sharing
(Marketers are taking over the term)
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What is curation?
What are the components?
5. Alternatives
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WordPress - We’ll Talk about in presentation
Drupal - We’ll Talk about in presentation
Exhibit - We’ll Talk about in presentation
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ContentDM - We’ll Talk about in storage management
Duraspace (DSpace and Fedora)
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Noting that Omeka and these all can co-exist - all are
parts of a larger ecosystem
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7. "The emergence of the web has brought scholars and
librarians, archivists, and museum professionals into
increasingly closer contact and conversation as humanists
are required to think differently and more deeply about the
nature of information and librarians are required to play an
ever more public role online."
8. Bit of Background
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Omeka was developed at Center for History and New Media
(CHNM) at George Mason University as a "next generation
web publishing platform for museums, historical societies,
scholars, enthusiasts, and educators." The feature-rich
offering provides for the presentation, searching and
browsing of digital collections along with a robust
metadata management facility.
9. Who is CNMH?
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Roy Rosenzweig Centre for New Media and History
Founded 1994
George Mason University in Washington
Collaborative Space Supporting 50+ Scholars
To preserve and present history online
Transform scholarship across the humanities
Supported by grants from AHA, NEH, NHC, Library of
Congress, Meloon, Sloan, Rockefeller and Kellog
Foundations amongst others
10. Products
Zotero
Omeka
Omeka.net
THATCamp
Scripto
PressForward
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Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is
a free, easy-to-use
Firefox extension to
help you collect,
manage, and cite
your research
sources.
Designed for cultural
Let Omeka.net host your
institutions, enthusiasts,
collections, research,
and educators, Omeka is
exhibits, and digital
a platform for publishing
projects.
online collections and
exhibitions.
Short for “The
Humanities and
Technology Camp,"
THATCamp is a
BarCamp-style, usergenerated
“unconference” on
digital humanities.
Scripto is a free, open
source tool that enables
community
transcriptions of
document and
multimedia files.
PressForward is
pioneering new
methods to capture
and highlight
orphaned or
underappreciated
scholarship and
share it with digital
humanists across
the web.
ScholarPress
Anthologize
Survey Builder
Timeline Builder
Serendip-o-matic
Web Scrapbook
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Manage your class,
Anthologize is a free, open- Build online surveys that
publish research, or
source, plugin that
are especially
collaborate on a
transforms WordPress
applicable to oral
conference
into a platform for
histories.
presentation with this
publishing electronic
hub for scholarly &
texts.
educational plugins.
CHNM Labs: Easily
create and manage a
timeline of historical
events for your
website.
Serendip-o-matic connects
your sources to digital
materials located in
libraries, museums, and
archives around the
world.
Store all kinds of
media items —
URLs, images, text,
and movies — &
collaborate thru the
CHNM online
scrapbook.
15. OMEKA Core Features
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Based on Open Source
Technology: Linux,
Apache, MySQL, PHP;
Free to Use, Free to
Change;
Easy to Use;
Change Design using
Themes;
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Add Functionality with
Plug-Ins;
Unqualified Dublin Core
Metadata;
Strong Support
Community;
Extensible, Scalable,
Flexible;
Interoperable
16. What is 'an Omeka'
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An Omeka 'instance' contains:
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Items (digital Objects of various types)
Collections (of objects)
Sites (set of collections)
Exhibits (curated subsets of site
collections)
17. Sidenote: Buying Server Space
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Simpler then you may think
$12/yr on reclaimhosting.com for example
$4-6 gets you as much as you may need for personal or
project usage
Hostgator, Bluehost, DreamHost, Site5 are good examples
Domain Name + Shared server space
Software Installs are automated
Mailserver etc. standard
20. A Rock Quick Look at the 15 Elements
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Title
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<dc:title></dc:title>
What the formal name of this resource - how would a user
know it?
Examples: title of a painting, photo, document; the name of a
person when using the "person" item type; the name of a
lesson plan.
21. A Rock Quick Look at the 15 Elements
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Subject
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<dc:subject></dc:subject>
What is the domain area/topic (non-spatial or temporal) that
the object is part of?
Controlled vocabularies such as the Getty can help here.
Typically keywords, key phrases, or classification codes.
Examples: Library of Congress subject headings; subjectspecific nomenclature.
22. A Rock Quick Look at the 15 Elements
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Description
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<dc:description></dc:description>
What sort of short narrative will help a user to know whether
this resource is relevant to their needs?
This is often an abstract, a table of contents or even a
graphical representation of the object
Examples: a photo caption; descriptive information of an
artifact/museum object; summary of a lesson plan; abstract
or summary of a long document;
23. A Rock Quick Look at the 15 Elements
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Creator
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<dc:creator></dc:creator>
Who is responsible for making this digital resource - digtiser,
digital author?
The original author or the digitising institution?
Examples: Author/authors; artists; photographers; institutional
authors or producers, such as university or federal agency.
24. A Rock Quick Look at the 15 Elements
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Source
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<dc:source></dc:source>
From what resource did the derived digital resource come
from?
This can be a type, a descriptor but best practice recommends
a string conforming to a formal identifier system
Examples: Accession number; Collection of objects; Division of
an archive or library.
25. A Rock Quick Look at the 15 Elements
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Publisher
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<dc:publisher></dc:publisher>
Who (what institution is making this resource available?
If there is a license or copyright involved helps to determine
this one
Examples: actual publisher, if there is one; entity or
consortium publishing digital materials.
26. A Rock Quick Look at the 15 Elements
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Date
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<dc:date></dc:date>
A point or period in the lifecycle of the digital object
When was this scanned? When was it published?
Consistency - decided by project management - documented
Consider in relation to the coverage of the object
Date is one of the trickiest fields to fill.You will want to decide how best
to use it for your project for consistency. There is an open text field for
date so that you can reflect the type of date information you have
whether it is a very specific date MM/DD/YYYY or if it is "circa 1940".
27. A Rock Quick Look at the 15 Elements
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Contributor
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<dc:contributor></dc:contributor>
Who (individual, institution, organisation - entity) is making
this object available/responsible for its digitisation?
Examples: person who contributed a story or file for an Omeka
collecting project; owner or donor of collected objects.
28. A Rock Quick Look at the 15 Elements
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Rights
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<dc:rights></dc:rights>
What restrictions are held in and over this resource?
This is typically a statement relation to the intellectual and
usage rights relating to this digital object
Examples: spell out conditions of use for specific items here;
Creative Commons type; Public Domain.
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Relation
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<dc:relation></dc:relation>
What resources are related to this digitised object?
Best practice is to refer to a <dc:identifier>
Examples: a still image of a person entered as a "person" type.
30. A Rock Quick Look at the 15 Elements
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Format
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<dc:format></dc:format>
What is the file format of this digital resource?
Examples include size and duration. Recommended best
practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the
Internet Media Types (MIME).
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Language
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<dc:language></dc:language>
What is the language(s) of the digital resource?
Again best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as
RFC4646
Examples: English; Russian; Spanish, et al.
32. A Rock Quick Look at the 15 Elements
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Type
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<dc:type></dc:type>
What defined type best represents the object you are
referencing?
Best practice to use the DCMI Type controlled vocabulary
http://dublincore.org/documents/2010/10/11/dcmi-typevocabulary/
Examples: For consistency, use item type controlled vocabulary
provided by Omeka: Document, Moving Image, Oral History, Sound,
Still Image,Website, Event, Email, Lesson Plan, Hyperlink, Person, or
33. A Rock Quick Look at the 15 Elements
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Identifier
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<dc:identifier></dc:identifier>
Where will a user find this resource via the web?
A direct and unambiguous identification of the resource unique and persistent - handle?
34. A Rock Quick Look at the 15 Elements
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Coverage
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<dc:coverage></dc:coverage>
To what defining place or time is this item relevant (spatial or
temporal)?
Typically relies on a controlled vocabulary relevant to the
domain, ie. The Getty Museum / Research Institute
Where appropriate, named places or time periods can be
used in preference to numeric identifiers such as sets of
coordinates or date ranges.
35. Spend time thinking about your metadata in
advance
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This is 'simple' Dublin Core
You need to qualify to describe more fully
How will people find what they are looking for?
How will they differentiate from one 'thing' over another?
How will your information architecture refer to the digital
objects?
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Useful for Straight Dublin Core: Dublin Core Generator
36. Planning an Omeka Site
1. What are the primary goals of the website?
2. Who is the primary audience of this website?
1. Secondary audiences?
3. What sections will this website include?
1. Items: (renamed however you would like Archive/Sources/Objects)
links to a browseable list of items, sortable by type of item and tags.
2. Collections (renamed however you would like): groups of items,
public can dig through collection to find items.
3. Exhibits: (renamed however you would like) Exhibits contain
interpretative text and rely on items/sources/objects as their
building blocks.
37. What About Items in this Website?
1. The item is the building block of your site.
1. Add the objects and materials you want to
display in your site.
2. Add descriptions using some or all of the
standard Dublin Core fields.
3. Once you have items in the Omeka archive,
then you can build an exhibit with them
or display categories of items organized
by collections or tags.
2. Determine the types of items/sources/objects
you plan to use in this site: (ie, Document,
Still Image, Moving Image, Audio, et al),
3. Do you want to modify any of the item type
fields or types? See Item_Types for
additional types and explanations.
4. Do you need additional core fields? —>
Install the Dublin Core Extended plugin.
5. It is wise to determine before you start
building the item archive what type of
consistencies you desire in your metadata-this may be especially true for fields such
as date, publisher, creator, et al.
6. Would you like to establish your own
Controlled Vocabulary for specific metadata
fields, to make it easier for your team to
enter consistent data? —> Install Simple
Vocab plugin.
7. Do you need Library of Congress subject
headings? —> Install Library of Congress
Subject Headings plugin.
38. What About Items in this Website?
1. Do you want to establish a controlled tagging
schema? You may add tags to individual
items and exhibits. Before building your
archive you may want to devise this schema
to help control vocab and spelling. Tags can
help you pull together different items for the
purpose of arranging them on a map or
creating navigational links to browse items
with a specific tag.
2. Do you have materials in other databases or
repositories? You may be able to batch add
them into your Omeka site. Can items be
exported in a Comma Separated Value
format? —> CSV Import plugin.
3. Is there an OAI-PMH harvestable set? —>
OAI-PMH Harvester plugin.
4. Do you have hundreds of files, or large media
files? —> Dropbox plugin.
5. Do you want to display items on a map? —>
the Geolocation plugin, you must geolocate
each item individually.
6. Are you interested in collecting materials
from your visitors through a web form, such
as a story or textual reflection, photos,
videos, et al. —> Contribution plugin to
facilitate collecting.
7. Do you want to build an exhibit with your
items? —> the Exhibit Builder plugin.
39. Thinking About Displaying Items
1. Do you want to add social bookmarking icons to the bottom of items/
show to allow users to share links to that item w/their social
networks?
1. —> the Social Bookmarking plugin.
2. Do you want to open commenting on items (only available at item
level, and for all items or none)?
1. —> the Commenting plugin.
3. Do you want to create and print QR Codes that link visitors in a
physical place to individual items in your Omeka site?
1. —> the Bar Code and Reports plugin.
4. Do you have documents that you wish users to read through on the
40. Extending Omeka Even Further
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Do you want to allow users to be notified of changes to
your items, collections, or exhibits?
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Do you want users to be able to harvest objects to their
own bibliographic managers (such as Zotero)?
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—> CoinS metadata
Do you want to track user demographics?
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—> Atom Output (Atom Syndication Format)
—> Google Analytics
Do you want to generate derivative images?
41. Extending Omeka
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Would you rather user PBCore (VRCore being spoken of)?
‣ —> PBCore for AV
‣ Are you working with Audio material?
‣ Send it directly to SoundCloud with the SC Plugin
‣ Do you use Library of Congress Terms?
‣ —> LOC augosuggest
‣ Would you like to crowdsource transcription of materials in your
collection?
‣ —> Scripto Transcription plugin
42. Omeka.net in a Nutshell
Pros
‣ Simple
‣ Lightweight
‣ Standards-Based
‣ Extensible
‣ Embeddable in other
systems
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Cons
‣ Scalability
‣ Some cross-browser
issues
‣ Restrictions on Look and
Feel
‣ Extensive customisation
means getting into code
‣ Mobile on the way
43. Features
omeka.org
omeka.net
Server
LAMP server required
no server required
FTP client
Required for file uploads and modifying Omeka
not required
Web-based administrative interface for adding,
editing, deleting items, collections, exhibits
Yes
Yes
Storage Space
Determined by your server admin
Determined by your plan: 500 mb; 1 gb; 5 gb; 10 gb; or
25gb
File size limitations
Determined by your server admin, with ability to use
Dropbox plugin for files that exceed that limit.
32 mb maximum
Sites per Installation
One website for one Omeka installation
Depending on plan, multiple sites available managed by
one user.
Custom Domain Redirects
You may point any Omeka installation to any domain
name.
No redirects available. All sites are subdomains of
Omeka.net (yoursite.omeka.net)
Plugins and Themes
Any and all available in Add-ons directory (see more on
other pages)
Not all Omeka plugins are available for use on .Net. And
availability of those plugins depends on the plan chosen
(see more on other pages).
Pricing
Free: all versions of Omeka, and all of its plugins and
themes are free and will be always.
Free basic plan will always be available, with other options
available for small fee: http://www.omeka.net/signup
Support
User Forums: http://omeka.org/forums
Help section with detailed instructions: http://
info.omeka.net
Developers' Google Group: https://groups.google.com/
group/omeka-dev/
Troubleshooting help form: http://info.omeka.net/contact
Advanced development: GitHub: http://github.org/omeka
44. Where to Go —> Neatline
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From the Scholar’s Lab at UVa
45. Where to Go Next
Links
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Beginners Guide
You’ll get a lab on this
A Couple Tutorials for those that want to play
Examples
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Tara
Grab a couple more of the website
Digital Amherst
46. For Next Week
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If you have not done so already, submit at least one tool to
the wiki (but don't feel constrained to one) and come
prepared to discuss your addition in the context of the
variety of tools submitted and encountered.
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Take a Read of:
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Spiro - "Signs that Social Scholarship is catching on in the
humanities"
Friedlander - "Asking Questions and Building a Research
Agenda for Digital Scholarship"
