Omeka introduction (revised) 2015

Omeka software exploration for LOR repository

Omeka Omeka is opensource – that means

there is no cost to use the software Omeka can be hosted on our servers on

webspace or on their server (for a charge)

Grant has 2 parts: portal (public space) and LOR to store faculty content

Omeka

OmekaForm

Validation / error detection

Web Form

Description metadata – rights - title/info

Download

Files (Attached)

Upload

Login at website

Retrieves query results; Content display is built from

database (public search results)

Authorized usersWrites (saves and

stores) to Database (MySQL)

Portal website

Discovery layer

/ search

Public interface

Search / browse

(no login)

Queries (searches)

Public users

Orange = server side activities

http://www.floridamemory.com/

Omeka – check out the classroom collection

Examples

http://www.floridamemory.com/

http://objectofhistory.org/

http://fire.omeka.net/

Examples

http://learning.lib.asu.edu/

Arizona State Learning Object Repository for library related materialsIncludes video embedded

Robin Fay @georgiawebgurl

http://ghslearn.com/items/search

Public search example - advanced

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

Omeka Upload, describe, create collections and groups Supports many file formats – video, pdf, images

can be embeded; zip is just zip Search, share, download Can batch upload and batch Collections/Tags Private/public Social media support (shareable); embeddable Can add search to Blackboard and link to upload for

faculty Supports licensing (creative commons) Can be used to build a public open textbook library

Omeka

Omeka

Omeka.org/about/