http://omeka.org/forums/ Forums Tag: archive en Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:59:46 +0000 http://omeka.org/forums/topic/changing-the-scroll-over-help-dialogue-in-step-2-of-add-an-item#post-613 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:47:50 +0000 SheilaBrennan 613@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Hi pcoutas, </p> <p>For the moment, there really isn't a way to edit that text. But, once the new release is available you will be able edit those helper functions explaining the DCMI terms.</p> <p>One suggestion to take you through this is to use the Site Notes plugins to offer alternative definitions for your users.</p> <p>Sheila </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/changing-the-scroll-over-help-dialogue-in-step-2-of-add-an-item#post-611 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:44:28 +0000 pcoutas 611@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I'm not a historian or a librarian or archival specialist of any type, and I find the scroll-over "help" dialogue for the metadata input boxes in Step Two of "Add an Item" to be a bit confusing! I'd like to change them so contributors have a bit more guidance/help that makes sense in the context of our archive.</p> <p>Is there a way of changing the information that appears? I had a quick look at a couple of files, but it'd help if someone could point me in the right direction! :) </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/new-project-poyi-online-archive-and-exhibit#post-349 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:06:29 +0000 SheilaBrennan 349@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Thanks for all of the info </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/new-project-poyi-online-archive-and-exhibit#post-342 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:41:05 +0000 AJMillion 342@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>No problemo. I actually worked for the Missouri Historical Society on the Richard A. Gephardt Papers Project. The bulk of work was general processing (*ick*), but during the second year they brought in myself and three others to digitize. I think we ended out scanning like 2,500 photos and recording a god awful amount of AV materials. In addition to the processing of course. If you are interested check out the Archon Server and look at the Gephardt finding aids:</p> <p><a href="http://archon.mohistory.org/" rel="nofollow">http://archon.mohistory.org/</a></p> <p>We made a few modifications to Archon's PHP and display. Unfortunately, I'm not completely sure of the details right now, because my boss farmed some of our web development out although I am still in contact with her. The big things we did were to add an export option within Archon, use that to import the same information to ContentDM, and then sync the two using a staticURL. This let us enter metadata in Archon but copy it (along with the associated files) for ContentDM to upload. At one point we validated all of our finding aids against the EAD DTD but some changes have been made since then too.</p> <p>But yea, if the archivist is still interested I'd be glad to help him out if I can. The only problem is I'm fairly busy as of late and may take a day or so to respond. I take it you have my e-mail? Also, as far as Archon goes he might want to get in contact with Chris Prom. I'm not sure about "trade secrets" or whatnot, but he was very helpful with us. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/new-project-poyi-online-archive-and-exhibit#post-340 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:06:21 +0000 SheilaBrennan 340@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Yes, there is a CSV translator in the works that would allow you to export your Excel into CSV and then import that into Omeka. </p> <p>By any chance can you share some of the work you did with the Archon program? Might be helpful to our digital archivist who is busily toiling away. If yes, I can put you in touch with him (off-line). </p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Sheila </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/new-project-poyi-online-archive-and-exhibit#post-339 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:43:31 +0000 AJMillion 339@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Actually, we have been using it. :) It's nice to have a batch tool when dealing with more than 10 files at once. The only problem, and I brought this up in another thread, was that the plug-in dosen't have a way to batch associate metadata. In my case I have several Excell files of information just waiting to be entered. I know you guys are eventually planning to offering support for this, but it might be nice to be able to map various internal and external fields. Especially since you are using Dublin Core. I did something very similar last year with the University of Illinois Archon program and it saved tons of time.</p> <p>I'm glad to see the administrative staff involved with end-users. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/new-project-poyi-online-archive-and-exhibit#post-334 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:09:41 +0000 SheilaBrennan 334@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>AJMillion,<br /> Neat project. Omeka can definitely handle the size of your photo archive. Have you used the dropbox yet to test batch adding files?</p> <p>Thanks for sharing.<br /> Sheila </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/new-project-poyi-online-archive-and-exhibit#post-330 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:53:17 +0000 AJMillion 330@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Myself and several others are in the process of developing a prototype that uses Omeka for the POYi Competition. For those of you unaware, the POYi competition is a world renown journalism event that dates back to 1943. Every year the judging committee (including several Pulitzer Prize winners) accepts photograph submissions that are judged by category, composition, etc... We have some really quality content and are genuinely excited about it.</p> <p>Anyway, right now the goal is to develop a new online presence for the POYi competition. The current one located at: [www.poyi.org] could stand some major work. To resolve it's problems we have decided to start over. The plan is to use Drupal to host the main POYi site and Omeka to structure, describe, and present the archived winning images. There are roughly 35,000+ of them!</p> <p>I'm not sure where the project will take us at this point but hopefully Omeka will continue to fit into the equation. It's support for metadata and displays certainly is something we want to keep! </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/alpha-section-of-forums-archived#post-143 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:16:17 +0000 DaveLester 143@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>All threads in this section have been closed in preparation of our first public release 0.9.</p> <p>Feel free to reference these threads to find solutions to your answers, however we ask that you to post new discussion threads to the various new sections of the forums instead of here. Many of these threads reference previous versions of Omeka that we've tested, and all of the problems mentioned have been resolved.</p> <p>Thank You. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/detailed-view-of-items#post-21 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:02:31 +0000 Gwen 21@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>In the detailed view of items in the archive the item number does not show up. To find out the item number I have to click on the title. It would be helpful to have the number showing up with the image if that is a possibility.</p> <p>Gwen </p>