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  1. AgnesL Posted 6 months ago

    This is for a small Museum in Africa that wants to redo the website with a CMS, and that would normally be with Wordpress.
    That would be a claissic sute bwith possibly an online shop for digital pictures, and some online exhibition system.

    However, the Museum has a project to digitize a large number of archives and would like to be sure the CMS we use will also possibly enable us to put them online. The digitization should be done within 2 years, so I have no idea what will be the format and specifications.
    In the meantime, we heared about Omeka.

    I am a Wordpress addict (open to other things though), and not very familiar with digital archives, so I wonder what would be the respective advantages:

    Wordpress:
    What would be the limitations?
    I guess it is not meant to manage large archive bases (speed/stability issues), nor to let users search them in a library style format (user experience), nor may be to deal with input formats (though there may be plugins)?

    Omeka:
    Seems fit for all the above...
    But although the community is growing, it will not be as huge as wordpress and provide plugins for online shopping and alike I guess...
    Also, how difficult is it to handle and customize?
    I am a web project manager used to put hands in code, but not keen to spend nights learning a new system...

  2. SheilaBrennan (Omeka Outreach Team) Posted 6 months ago

    Here is a post called Omeka and its Peers that you might find helpful in making your decision: http://omeka.org/blog/2010/09/21/omeka-and-peers/

    WordPress doesn't handle collections or metadata associated with individual web objects very well. You could also combine WordPress with Omeka.

    You might want to look at a site that was built for similar purposes as your site, then start inspecting the pages, and compare that with what is available in the Documentation in the Design and Develop sections: http://omeka.org/codex/Documentation

    If you can create a theme in WordPress, you will be able to create a theme in Omeka.

  3. AgnesL Posted 6 months ago

    Thanks for your feedback!
    Well... I can see Omeka will be better for managing collections for sur. And possibly for digital archives? (not sure how much Omeka does that... but at least it imports such data!)
    While Wordpress has more CVMS features for a simple web site
    The solution may be to combine the two...
    And keep one theme w<orking on both.
    But that becomes kind of complex!

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