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What is Omeka? Frequently used in Libraries , Museums, Archives… Omeka is a web publishing platform for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits. Provides additional functionality for items requiring Metadata- Platform that anticipates heavy use of Metadata to promote ease of use and searching.

What is Metadata? Metadata helps you find stuff! Metadata is Descriptive data or Descriptive elements about other Data ( eg. images, documents, etc)

Add Item – Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Standardized/ controlled Vocabulary: The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set is a vocabulary of fifteen properties for use in resource description. The name "Dublin" is due to its origin at a 1995 invitational workshop in Dublin, Ohio; "core" because its elements are broad and generic, usable for describing a wide range of resources. Metadata is working behind the scenes to help you locate items in a collection Or catalog.

Omeka uses: ITEMS, COLLECTIONS , AND EXHIBITS

You can add items one at a time or use the batch import plug –in CSV import for batch import. http://info.omeka.net/build-a-website/manage-plugins/csv-import/

Sample Pages: · Grateful Dead Archive Online Heavily custom-themed Exhibits Solr-search plugin Contributions Example: Grateful Dead item https://www.gdao.org/items/show/831072

Sample Pages: ·· Wiki Loves Art Nouveau (Europeana) Collections Heavily custom-themed

You may assign Users different levels of access to the admin interface. Super users can access all available pages in the admin. Supers are the only users with access to the Settings panel, choosing and configuring themes; adding and editing users; changing general settings. Administrator users can access and edit Items, Collections, and Tags. Contributor users can add items and edit items they have created. They may create exhibits using any item in the archive, and have permission to view any public exhibit from the administrative side. Researcher users can see all of the Items, Collections, and Item Types pages–public or private, but cannot edit any content.

Activities: Create some Items Add Files to Item Add DC metadata Add DC metadata to a file Edit an Item Type to add or remove fields (e.g., add Transcriber to Document?) Edit the About page Add child pages to the About page Add a collection, and add item(s) to it Create an exhibit, a section, and a page Add item(s) to a page Create some text about the item(s) Create a new user Activate Simple Pages plugin Change theme to Seasons Change the number of items displayed per page Activities: Remove the link to Collections from header Activate Simple pages, create a "Further Reading" page, and add it to the header