Hi,
I'm looking into Omeka to display art museum objects that are better described in VRA Core. How can I extend or replace the current Dublin Core framework with VRA Core?
Hi,
I'm looking into Omeka to display art museum objects that are better described in VRA Core. How can I extend or replace the current Dublin Core framework with VRA Core?
Hi Ethan,
There are two ways that you could approach this -- create a plugin that modifies the existing dublin core element set of Omeka (however, if you're not simply extending this then I wouldn't suggest doing that). I'm not familiar with VRA core, but if it's an extension of Dublin Core than it may be an option. An example of that is our Dublin Core Extended plugin,
Download: http://omeka.org/files/plugins/omeka-dublincoreextended-plugin-1.0-1.0.zip
SVN: https://addons.omeka.org/svn/plugins/DublinCoreExtended/tags/1.0-1.0/
It's also possible to create your own element set that runs parallel to Dublin Core in Omeka. It would create a tab on the left side of the item edit page (below the dublin core, files, and tags tabs) for your element set. I've been meaning to type up a use-case for how to develop this, so if you're interested let me know and I'll write one up.
Dave
I'm also very interested in creating either a VRA core or CDWA Lite element set. Can you discuss this further, or provide a use-case?
How do alternative element sets work with the rest of Omeka, with plugins, etc.? Is it possible to make them play nicely together?
Thanks so much!
You can learn more about element sets, including how to create custom ones, here.
Our OAI-PMH Harvester plugin contains code that maps CDWA Lite to the Dublin Core element set, using Getty's Metadata Standards Crosswalk. Depending on your requirements, this may be your best bet.
Otherwise, Omeka is designed to work well with new element sets.
I've got a copy of CDWA Elemet set for download at http://www.patrickgmj.net/node/177 . It was made with an in-progress plugin for displaying RDF relationships, but it should work fine independently.
Ethan, I can work on the same technique for VRA.
Both are based on the RDF representations, so there might be some small variations, but should do the trick
Hy!
You mentioned about a plug-in that modifies the existing dublin core element set of Omeka.How is this possible?
Can i find an example of such kind in the svn repository?
ralexandru, see DaveLester's response above.
I am looking for a use-case that Dave Lester mentioned. While this is less than ideal it might be an option for my organization. Otherwise I will need to use another system and import via csv.
>It's also possible to create your own element
set that runs parallel to Dublin Core in Omeka. It would create a tab on the left side of the item edit page (below the dublin core, files, and tags tabs) for your element set. I've been meaning to type up a use-case for how to develop this, so if you're interested let me know and I'll write one up.
I would also be very interested in a use case for creating your own element and mapping it to Dublin Core.
I'd love to get a hold of that CDWA Element set, but the link you posted is now dead. Is there a new location you (Patrick or anyone else) can post to obtain that. Thanks so much.