Description
Omeka is a content management system designed for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Omeka falls at a crossroads of Web Content Management, Collections Management, and Archival Digital Collections Systems. Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation. It makes top-shelf design easy with a simple and flexible templating system. Its robust open-source developer and user communities underwrite Omeka’s stability and sustainability. Omeka allows users to publish cultural heritage objects, extend its functionality with themes and plugins, and curate online exhibits with digital objects. (Source)
Creator
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
Type(s) of DH Tool or Platform
Screenshots of Platform
Omeka’s Dashboard – Manage all information
Adding a Collection – Use tags to organize similar items into categories
Managing Items – Data management
Managing Navigation – by ordering, editing, and adding navigation links, and by selecting a homepage.