2. Agenda
What is Omeka
Examples
User roles
Highlights/Functionalities
File supports we need
Plugins used on demo
Demo
Future questions
Omeka
Robin Fay @georgiawebgurl
3. Omeka
Omeka is opensource – that means there is
no cost to use the software
However, we may decide to purchase
software to extend it and make it EVEN MORE
useful
Omeka will be hosted on our servers on
webspace
For now (TESTING purposes), we will use the
athenstech.edu domain
A brief interlude…
Omeka
4. Webspace (Portal + Repository;
Database; files of learning objects
• Admin of webspace/some
server tools (PHP, statistics, etc)
• Sets up repository software,
website, and user roles for
portal
• Identifies and loads content
Server Administration
NICK’s magic
• Sets up Cpanel
• Sets us server software
• Sets permissions
• Points athenstech.edu
domain space to portal
server
Power users (testers, those who need
additional access) upload, edit, delete
(maybe), statistics, set up users(maybe)
Contributors – can upload & edit; login
Anon visitors e.g., not logged in
(public, students, etc.) – view only
Omeka
CPANEL / ROBIN
19. Omeka
User roles out of the box:
Superuser (everything; actually more of
traditional Admin)
Admin User
Contributor
Researcher
Anon
Can create others using Userroles plugin
Sends email to activate account
Omeka
Robin Fay @georgiawebgurl
20. Admin User
Admin users do not have access to the Settings panel.
Items
add items
edit items (including those from other users),
tag items
view all the items that are not public
remove tags by other users
make items public (or not public)
make items featured
Collections
add collections
edit collections
view collections that aren't public
Files
edit/remove files
Tags
rename tags (as in, change the tag 'foo' to 'bar')
delete tags for all items (as in, remove the tag 'katrina' from the whole
system at one time)
Item Types
add/edit/delete the available Types
Plugins
Admins may use any of the plugin panels and actions, once activated and
configured by Supers.
Omeka
Robin Fay @georgiawebgurl
21. Contributor & Researcher
Contributor Users
tag items
add new items
edit their own items
delete their own items
cannot make their own items public.
can see items by other contributors that have not
been made public.
create their own exhibits from items that are
public.
Researcher
View private items and collections
Omeka
Robin Fay @georgiawebgurl
22. Omeka
Upload, describe, create collections and
groups
Some support for embedded media
Search, share, download
Private/public
Omeka
Robin Fay @georgiawebgurl
24. Exhibitbuilder
DocsViewer
EmbedCode (will be useful for pulling in feeds like
facebook posts, blogs, or other items)
Userroles
Deriatives
Searchbymetadata
PDFText (extract text from PDF)
Social Bookmarking (or Addthis via an iframe)
Simple Contact Form
Simple Pages (Could be our portal interface)
OAI-PMH Harvester (not tested yet)
Item Relations (Define relationships between items - might
be a way to get to providing class
level info - not tested yet)
DublinCore extended (metadata)
Dropbox (Batch upload through dropbox!)
Omeka
Robin Fay @georgiawebgurl
25. Exhibitbuilder
DocsViewer
EmbedCode (will be useful for pulling in feeds like
facebook posts, blogs, or other items)
Userroles
Deriatives
Searchbymetadata
PDFText (extract text from PDF)
Social Bookmarking (or Addthis via an iframe)
Simple Contact Form
Simple Pages (Could be our portal interface)
OAI-PMH Harvester (not tested yet)
Item Relations (Define relationships between items - might
be a way to get to providing class level info - not tested
yet)
DublinCore extended (metadata)
Dropbox (Batch upload through dropbox!)
Omeka
26. Neatline (Timeline) ?
LC Suggest (Suggest
topics/subjects/keywords)
Item Order (customize order of items)
Collection Tree (create more of a hierarchy)
Commenting
Geolocation (maybe for some of Jenny's
stuff?)
Reports and Barcodes - can generate QR
codes of item in PDFs
CSV Import (Excel ? of any use)
Omeka
27. Demo
Discussion points/followup:
Omeka vs. Fedora
Organization (Taxonomy) – how to create
collections? By topic, by format?
Zip files – is there a way to create an
embedded viewer? What does Merlot do?
Customizing the upload form
Removing DC terminology (we will use DC)
Procedures/process – guidance about
describing items
Thumbnails for nongraphical items?
File limits
Google analytics
Omeka