Omeka (also known as Omeka Classic) is a free, open-source content management system for online

digital collections A digital library, also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, or a digital collection is an online database of digital objects that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital documents, or other digital ...

. As a

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, it allows users to publish and

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cultural heritage objects, and extend its functionality with themes and plugins. A lightweight solution in comparison to traditional

institutional repository An institutional repository is an archive for collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution. Academics also utilize their IRs for archiving published work ...

software like

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and Fedora, Omeka has a focus on display and uses an unqualified

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metadata standard. Its software is currently being used by the Newberry Library as well as many small museums and historical societies. The Missouri School of Journalism uses Omeka to share their archive of 38,000 photographs from the

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contest. Originally developed by the

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), formerly the Center for History and New Media (CHNM), is a research center specializing in history and information technology at George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax County, Virgin ...

at George Mason University, Omeka was awarded a technology collaboration award by the

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and is used to teach curation. Since 2016, the Omeka project has been a project developed by the non-profit Corporation for Digital Scholarship. In November of 2017, the project released Omeka S, a new version of Omeka designed for institutional use, providing the capability to host multiple sites which draw from a common pool of resources such as

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, in this case through a third-party module. Omeka Classic, the original project, will continue to exist alongside Omeka S with a focus on serving individual projects and educators.

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Official website

Sites Powered by Omeka

Source code repository
Free software programmed in PHP Free institutional repository software 2008 software Content management systems Free content management systems Digital library software

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