Omeka
- Lauren
A free and flexible, open source web-publishing platform for curating online archives, libraries, museums and exhibits. Users can create complex narratives around their data collections, sharing them with viewers in unique and interesting ways.
Are you a researcher with a scholarly collection to showcase? With Omeka’s ‘five minute set up,’ launching an online exhibit is as easy as launching a blog. The platform is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing you to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming.
Key capabilities of Omeka include:
upload any file type (e.g. images, video, multipage documents and PDFs, Powerpoint decks and more)
add items individually or by batch, using migration tools (e.g. OAI-PMH Harvester, CSV, EAD, Zotero, Atom, Dropbox and more)
create large archives of metadata and files (over 100, 000 items)
display and annotate your files in an easy to use web interface
input metadata of all sorts (e.g. Library of Congress Subject Heading autocomplete, Dublin Core Extended, Simple Vocab, Tag Bandit, Site Notes and more)
assign various Copyright licenses to your collections
extend your functionalities with a range of publicly available plugins and themes.