Omeka introduction (revised) 2015
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Omeka software exploration for LOR repository
Transcript of 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://learning.lib.asu.edu/
Arizona State Learning Object Repository for library related materialsIncludes video embedded
Robin Fay @georgiawebgurl
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/
