Hi Friends,
I am happy rather excited to introduce you to ‘Omeka’ a free, robust open source software for the display of library, museum, archives, scholarly collections and exhibitions of institutional repository, digital content and web publishing.
Omeka is a project developed by the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University.
Its “five-minute setup” makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog. Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation. It makes top-shelf design easy with a simple and flexible templating system. Its robust open-source developer and user communities underwrite Omeka’s stability and sustainability.
Until now, scholars and cultural heritage professionals looking to publish collections-based research and online exhibitions required either extensive technical skills or considerable funding for outside vendors. By making standards based, serious online publishing easy, Omeka puts the power and reach of the web in the hands of academics and cultural professionals themselves.
From the technical point of view, Omeka has good back-end technologies – Apache, PHP, MySQl and ImageMagick. Unqualified Dublin Core data, combined with Omeka-generated feeds and OAI-PMH harvestable data, give Omeka sites the ability to share data among different systems and with other Omeka sites.
I am quite sure library professionals, library technologist from all over the world would welcome, encourage and keep it up-to- date. In one word, future- proof. (As technology keeps evolving, so is the software. Remember, how far we traveled from command-lines, to menus, to GUI and now Web-based).
Yes, in my excitement, I forgot, you may download it: http://omeka.org/
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