Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. 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 Web 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.

Omeka Features

·        Free, open-source, digital publishing suite for scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, and cultural enthusiasts       

·        No contracts or annual fees

·        Easy to use

·        Strong community of documentation and support

·        Extensible, scalable, and flexible

·        Standards-based metadata and web design

·        Customizable Web Design

·        Interoperable

·        Data Migration

·        Re-Purposing Content

·        Exhibit building

·        Create and organize items into collections.

·        Publish non-Roman characters.

·        Plot individual items on a Google map with the Geolocation plugin.

·        Syndicate Omeka site content with RSS and Atom feeds.

·        Reporting

·        Extend core functionality through plugins

SOURCE LINK: http://omeka.org/

Regards,

P. S. MANJUNATHA

LIBRARIAN

B. N. M. I. T. SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES

BANGALORE