2015-08-20
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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" …
exhibit
- An exhibit has pages
- A method of hand-creating a page that draws on items
- Various options for arrangement of text & images with a drag-and-drop interface
- Seems you can either link to an item or suck it in
- PY reports exhibits used to be very buggy; JM's experience is not so buggy
- Omeka originally designed for 1 person to be creating site, so when multiple folks work on it there are problems
- Simple Pages are just blank slate for exhibit page, rather than a template (or, perhaps, a blank template … :-)
neatline
- exhibit-building plug-in
- lets people tell stories using maps & timelines
- often require lots of customization
- can use Google Maps templates
- create records that link items (and their metadata) to things on your map
- by default all your metdata pops up
- JM describes a method of getting around this problem (that I did not catch)
- Our Marathon hacked neatline a bit
- Basic neatline template is pretty simplistic — image on top, text underneath
summary
- JM: "I'm not in love with Omeka"
- Has some interesting capabilities for creating certain types of sites; i.e. is useful.
- There are forums for support.
- JM recommends DSG have guidelines on how to use Omeka in a manner that makes ingestion into DRS easier
- Mostly useful for class projects; public digital hx, etc.