Omeka continues to be a popular content management platform for scholars, libraries, and museums interested in displaying digital objects or content. Its flexibility and search features make it attractive to a range of users with various interests.
This session aims to discuss Omeka as a tool and the types of plug-ins, for example, it contains. It also aims to examine a few applied cases, such as Digital Archiving Resources, Florida Memory, and Samsula Historical Archive, where it has been used successfully in and outside the classroom, and to better understand its limitations and possibilities.
Thanks for this session, Mark. It would be nice to have examples of where to use Omeka and plug-ins, since in my limited use of Omeka I’ve found it to be a bit labor-intensive although very rich in possibilities.
Tim D’Annecy, Elizabeth Dale, Suzan Alteri, and many others have worked with Omeka, and Research Computing is supporting Omeka as installed on their servers for UF Digital Humanities. Also, Barbara Lewis at USF has extensively used Omeka in support of digital scholarship and online exhibits, so it will be exciting to see the diversity of experiences, concerns, and perspectives for this conversation!