Credits

Produced by Marco Bay and Piergiorgio Borgogno.

The Omeka open-source software

The software used is Omeka S. Omeka is a Digital Scholar project (https://digitalscholar.org/), originally launched at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (Department of History and Art History, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, MSN 1E7, Fairfax, Virginia 22030 USA) and funded by several organisations. The Omeka name and logo are registered trademarks of Digital Scholar.

What does “Omeka” mean?

“Omeka” is a Swahili word meaning to display or lay out wares; to speak out; to spread out; to unpack. The team chose this name because it signifies the practices that Omeka helps its users to carry out with digital content and through building digital projects for online communities…

The software is available on GitHub.

GitHub – omeka/omeka-s: Omeka S is a web publication system for universities, galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. It consists of a local network of independently curated exhibits sharing a collaboratively built pool of items, media, and their metadata.

Dublin Core, the metadata standard

Associating the classification fields of the ASC’s ‘private database’ with the Dublin Core standard references helps disseminate a selection of the archival heritage and makes it traceable through one of the most important international metadata structures. The activities of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), of its members and communities, are broadly characterised by four areas that make the development and study community solid:

• Administration. The DCMI develops and maintains open standard metadata vocabularies such as Dublin Core; it hosts the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI); and it provides “good neighbour” support for other related metadata activities.
• Community. The DCMI’s international community of metadata professionals and experts meets in working groups and at an annual conference to share implementation experiences and report on research and new developments.
• Learning. Teachers and metadata-technology experts from around the world hold and offer tutorials, online meetings and webinars to discuss and disseminate innovative metadata solutions.
• Development. Since pioneering the application profile in 1990, the DCMI continues to develop profiles and related vocabularies spanning practical techniques such as spreadsheets and data shapes.