Using Omeka as a Gateway to Digital Projects
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Digital Frontiers 2015 https://digital-frontiers.org/ Presentation on Omeka 9/18/2015 Presenters: Jeff Downing, Lynn Johnson, and Derek Reece (Digital Projects Librarians) and Rafia Mirza (Digital Humanities Librarian)
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Using Omeka as a Gateway to Digital Projects
- 2. Digital Frontiers September 18, 2015 Jeff Downing, Lynn Johnson, Rafia Mirza and Derek Reece University of Texas at Arlington Using Omeka as a Gateway to Digital Projects
- 3. Presenters • Jeff Downing and Lynn Johnson • Digital Projects Librarians • Project management • Derek Reece • Digital Projects Librarian • Challenges of embracing open source software • Rafia Mirza, Digital Humanities Librarian • Building on these projects to offer Digital Humanities outreach in the classroom
- 4. Introduction • As part of UT Arlington Libraries 2013 reorganization, new focus is on digital projects and open source software. • Decision to use Omeka as both a display platform and learning opportunity for our staff and community. • Using Omeka as our primary exhibit and outreach tool has led to collaboration with our Special Collections, Digital Creation and Outreach & Scholarship departments. • Our Digital Creation department is learning how to adapt to both the benefits and challenges of Omeka and open source software: • Jeff Downing and Lynn Johnson: Project management and building relationships • Derek Reece: Challenges of embracing open source software • Rafia Mirza: Building on these projects to offer Digital Humanities outreach in the classroom
- 5. Presenter • Jeff Downing and Lynn Johnson • Digital Projects Librarians • Project management and building relationships
- 6. Omeka • Omeka: • “. . . a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions” and adheres to Dublin Core standards. • www.omeka.org
- 7. Omeka.org vs Omeka.net Omeka.org/downloadable Omeka.net LAMP server required No server required FTP client required No FTP client required Web-based administrative interface Web-based administrative interface Add, edit, delete Items, Item Types, Collections, Exhibits Add, edit, delete Items, Item Types, Collections, Exhibits Customize themes and plugins by editing server files Configurable themes and plugins through admin interface Storage space determined by your server and/or server administrator Storage space according to the plan you choose. Unlimited number of plugins and themes Plugins and themes determined by the plan you chose File size limitations, determined by your server administrator File size limitations: 64mb One site per installation Multiple sites, depending on your plan, per user account Free Free basic plan always available w/other options for small fee What are the differences between the version you download and install yourself < omeka.org/download>, and getting a hosted account on Omeka.net? For a more comprehensive comparison, see http://bitly.com/compareomekas.
- 8. Berachah Home: Proof of Concept
- 9. Berachah Home: Proofof Concept • Berachah Industrial Home for the Redemption of Erring Girls, Arlington, Texas http://library.uta.edu/berachah- home/ • 18 item records • Images, documents, line drawings, journal pages • Added each item/image from scratch • Enhanced by adding metadata • Learned a lot about Omeka that we were able to put to use in our next phases • Project gave us confidence to pursue a full-scale endeavor
- 11. TheUTALibrariesDigitalGallery: UsingOmekaforLarge-ScaleHosting • The “500” => The “10,000” => WD Smith (1940s + 1950s) => Digital Gallery http://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/ • April 2015: 1,100 previously-scanned items were loaded into Omeka/Digital Gallery • May 2015: Record count increased to over 10,700 in Digital Gallery • Summer 2015: 9 students were hired to scan and make TIF and JPG derivatives from our W.D. Smith Commercial Photography Collection. Approximately 7,000 items from the 1940s were scanned and put onto the Gallery. Additional scanning equipment was purchased • Currently: • 15,890 item records • 142 Collections • Images, negatives • Basic information downloaded to Omeka using Special Collections data • Metadata staff are enhancing basic metadata
- 12. TheUTALibrariesDigitalGallery: BuildingPartnerships • Project team included members from Digital Creation, Special Collections, Access & Discovery, Marketing • DC staff developed site and managed content additions • Marketing worked with DC on site design • SPCO chose images and shared basic metadata • A&D is engaged in metadata enhancement (adhering to Dublin Core) • Meetings and Communication • Weekly meetings of the entire group – important for info sharing and team building • As-needed meetings of subgroups • SharePoint site to store minutes, procedures, etc. • At least two articles in Library’s internal newsletter to educate Library staff on the project • Thoughts • Management support critical to success • Loading images and metadata fairly quick and easy; plug-ins are essential • Lack of a Reports writer is problematic • Delays, though inevitable, were frustrating! • Knowledge gained with be helpful when designing/implementing new sites • Omeka is Open-Source, but needs lots of customization
- 13. Presenter • Derek Reece • Digital Projects Librarian • Challenges of embracing open source software
- 14. Out of the box Omeka.org=hosted on a local server Benefits-variety of themes, professional site without customization or programming skills Technical skills • HTML, FTP client, Web Server, MySQL database
- 15. Custom Benefits-customization, not limited to an Omeka theme Technical skills • HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Web Server, MySQL • Responsive design=Bootstrap • Zend Framework
- 16. Challenges • Development community • Omeka forums • Omeka Developer Google Group • Omeka website documentation is thorough and up-to-date • Flexibility in customization-web designer wasn’t limited by the product • New web team
- 17. Presenter • Rafia Mirza, Digital Humanities Librarian • Building on these projects to offer Digital Humanities outreach in the classroom
- 18. Outreach Ideal Project vs. Current Resources
- 19. What is Omeka? • Led to discussion of What are Databases? • Databases: • Used to organize information in such a way that it is easily • Accessed • Managed • Updated • http://www.faculty.umb.edu/william_holmes/databasedefinitions.htm • http://wiki.gis.com/wiki/index.php/Database
- 20. What is Dublin Core? • What are Databases? led to discussion of What is Dublin Core? • Dublin Core is a metadata standard used by libraries and archives for digital items that consists of 15 basic fields that can be used to describe any digital object, no matter what it is
- 21. Metadata in everyday life • “What is Dublin Core?” led to discussion of “What is metadata?”
- 22. Outreach • Discussions of • How to enter Items and their related metadata also led to conversations around • What could they use? • What do they need permission to use? • Led to conversations about Copyright and Permissions • Discussions about • Ideal projects/end goal lead to conversations about grants • Eventually lead to digital preservations/archiving issues
- 23. Questions? This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
- 24. Contact Information • Jeff Downing • downing@uta.edu • Lynn Johnson • lynnfj@uta.edu • Rafia Mirza • rafia@uta.edu • @librarianrafia • Derek Reece • dreece@uta.edu
Editor's Notes
- Opening Slide
- Introduction – What is Omeka? (10 minutes) Omeka is a simple, free web publishing system built by and for scholars that is used by hundreds of archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, and individual researchers and teachers to create searchable online databases and scholarly online interpretations of their digital collections. If you have a digital collection of primary sources that you want to publish online in a scholarly way, you’ll want to consider Omeka. “Omeka” (pronounced oh-MEH-ka) is a Swahili word meaning “to display or lay out wares” – swahili_english.enacademic.com/11461/omeka The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media began building Omeka in 2006; they wanted to abstract the technologies they were using repeatedly to build historical websites, all of which required setting up a searchable database that was integrated with an online exhibit. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march10/kucsma/03kucsma.html
- Introduction – What is Omeka? (10 minutes) Omeka is a simple, free web publishing system built by and for scholars that is used by hundreds of archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, and individual researchers and teachers to create searchable online databases and scholarly online interpretations of their digital collections. If you have a digital collection of primary sources that you want to publish online in a scholarly way, you’ll want to consider Omeka. “Omeka” (pronounced oh-MEH-ka) is a Swahili word meaning “to display or lay out wares” – swahili_english.enacademic.com/11461/omeka The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media began building Omeka in 2006; they wanted to abstract the technologies they were using repeatedly to build historical websites, all of which required setting up a searchable database that was integrated with an online exhibit. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march10/kucsma/03kucsma.html