1. Alison Valk Georgia Tech
OMEKA
Alison Valk
Georgia Tech

2. 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.

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

5. 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,
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.

6. Omeka uses: ITEMS, COLLECTIONS , AND EXHIBITS

8. You can add items one at a time or use the batch import plug –in
CSV import for batch import.

9. Sample Pages:
· Grateful Dead Archive Online
Heavily custom-themed
Exhibits
Solr-search plugin
Contributions
Example: Grateful Dead item

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

11. 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.

12. 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