As you are thinking about designing a website, you may also want to consult, Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and, Presenting the Past on the Web, by Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig
Scholars:
- Use Omeka to publish an essay or digital dissertation, share primary source collections, and collaborate with others in the creation of digital scholarship.
- Features you might like: design themes, exhibit builder, tagging, dropbox plugin, iPaper plugin, geolocation plugin.
- Examples: Digital Worcester, Euclid Corridor,Experiencing Medieval Places, The World at the Fair, Daisie M. Helyar, 1906-1910 Scrapbook
- Tell us how you Teach_with_Omeka.
Museum Professionals:
- Use Omeka to share collections and build online exhibits with objects you cannot display in the museum. Invite your visitors to tag and mark items as favorites, or to contribute content. Start a blog to publish museum news and podcasts.
- Features you might like: Dublin Core metadata standards, W3C and 508 compliant, design themes, exhibit builder plugin, MyOmeka plugin, contribution plugin, dropbox, data migration tools (OAI-PMH, CSV), social bookmarking plugin.
- Examples: Lincoln at 200, Inventing Europe: Technology and the Making of Europe, 1850 to the Present, Object of History, Catawba River Docs, Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives
Librarians:
- Use Omeka as the publishing tool to complement your online catalog or launch a digital exhibit.
- Features you might like: Dublin Core metadata standards, W3C and 508 compliant, extensible and customizable item fields, RSS/Atom syndication, MyOmeka plugin, data migration tools (OAI-PMH, CSV).
- Examples: Memorial Stadium 1924-1992, Photographs by Homer L. Shantz, Eminent Domain, Upper Ringwood Library Collection.
Archivists:
- Use Omeka to share your collections, display documents and oral histories, or create digital archives with user-generated content.
- Features you might like: Dublin Core metadata standards, W3C and 508 compliant, exhibit builder plugin, extensible and customizable item fields, iPaper plugin, tagging, data migration tools (OAI-PMH and CSV plugins) .
- Examples: Bracero History Archive,Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
Educators:
- Use Omeka to build inquiry-based tasks for students, to create lesson plans with accompanying primary sources, or build learning modules with your team.
- Features you might like: design themes, exhibit builder, MyOmeka plugin, blogging plugin, iPaper plugin, tagging.
- Examples: Laurel Grove School Teachers Workshop, Making the History of 1989, Teaching & Learning Cleveland.
- Tell us how you Teach_with_Omeka.
Enthusiasts:
- Use Omeka to share you personal research or collections with the world, build exhibits and write essays that showcase your expertise.
- Features you might like: design themes, exhibit builder, contribution plugin, live directory (coming soon), blogging, tagging.
