omeka: cost-effective web publishing for museums in a web 2.0 world

Omeka:Cost-Effective Web Publishing for Museums in a Web 2.0 World

Sharon M. LeonDirector of Public Projectssleon@gmu.edu

MCN Taiwan, February 25, 2009

Core Features• Open Source Technology: Linux, Apache,

MySql, PHP• Change design using themes• Add functionality with plug-ins• Unqualified Dublin Core Metadata• 508 and WC3 standards/accessibility

compliant

Extended Functionality• CSV and OAI-PMH data migration• Social Bookmarking• Tagging• RSS2, Atom, RDF, XHTML, XML, JSON (add

operator to URL to expose)• Geolocation• User contribution form• “My Omeka” user collections• IPaper (document viewer)• Simple Pages

Get involved

• Subscribe to the blog: http://omeka.org/blog/• Post to the Forums: http://omeka.org/forums/ • Join the Google Dev Group:

http://groups.google.com/group/omeka-dev• Sign up for SVN/Trac: http://omeka.org/trac/• Join weekly IRC chats on Friday at 2:30pm

EST: irc.freenode.net #omeka

Omeka:Cost-Effective Web Publishing for Museums in a Web 2.0 World

Sharon M. LeonDirector of Public Projectssleon@gmu.edu

MCN Taiwan, February 25, 2009