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Revision as of 11:34, 20 August 2015
assessmemnt
events tracking
- Part of our assessment project (for ourselves & the library)
- DSG has used Podio to create an Events form
- Amanda demos
consulting
- Library likes to keep track of how much we consult w/ other departments
- Podio also has a new form that Amanda has created (w/ Sarah's help) to track consultation
mentoring
- LM interested in programming topics
- SB in XML, XPath, XSLT, TEI, RELAX NG, etc.
- AC ditto (including XQuery)
- BS geo-spatial
- HC © & fair use; open access
omeka under the hood
- content management system
- "wordpress for museums"
- was used on Our Marathon
- ECDA started in it, then went elsewhere
- DRS does some of same stuff better
- May be a presence on campus where students being asked to gather & curate
- Hx dept interested
DSG & Omeka
Our Marathon
- using old version of Omeka
- highly customized
- Reclaim hosting has a one-click install
- (Ryan C. uses that service)
structure
- has items, which have metadata
- uses basic DC metadata; also has item types (w/ additional metadata for some kinds of types, which Our Marathon did not use)
- plugin for extended
- collections is a set of items
- item can only be in 1 collection
- Omeka does not have sets
- Omeka does have exhibits, more curational than sets of DRS
- also has tags
- search capability less than optimal and has a somewhat icky interface
- e.g., will not search on words ≤ 3 chars long, so "red sox" …