Tom edwards wyndham - omeka local history portal

Omeka Adventures with a local history portal

Tom Edwards

● The Wyndham History project ● Digital history platforms ● OAI-PMH rant ● Why Omeka? ● A tour of features ● Our Omeka launch ● Questions

What we’ll cover

The Wyndham History project Two year project, commissioned by Wyndham City to celebrate 150 years

since Wyndham was proclaimed a Shire.

Project included a book ($30 - buy one today!) and a website.

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Some platforms...

ContentDM

No matter which you choose...

… Make sure they will play nicely with

eg. make sure they can be harvested

as an OAI-PMH repository.

An illustration...

Wyndhamhistory.net.au

Built using Omeka CMS Trove.nla.gov.au

Weekly OAI-PMH harvest

An illustration...

An illustration...

An illustration... http://re.cs.uct.ac.za/

An illustration...

http://goo.gl/Yfys9T

Why ?

● OAI-PMH repository

● Emphasis on end user-generated content

(although more on this shortly...)

● Great map support

● Supports responsive designs

● Open source and built on standard

Apache/PHP/MySQL with Zend framework

● Good user community and well supported

with plugins

User generated content

eg.

http://hurricanearchive.org/

Not yet available in the current version of

Omeka (2.1.1) however...

Great map support

eg.

http://neatline.org/neatline-in-

action/

Need pretty good bandwidth to showcase to its

full potential

Responsive design

How we got ready for cataloguing

● Prepared a cataloguing policy based on

Dublin Core requirements, included:

○ construction of local thesaurus

○ creating controlled vocabularies on Omeka

where possible

● Mapped MARC fields (from existing historical

photos on catalogue) to Dublin Core

Elements, used:

○ MARCEdit (Export tab-delimited records)

○ CSV Import plugin on Omeka

A tough launch decision...

Omeka 1.5

(End user

contribution)

Omeka 2.x

(Responsive

design)

Our Omeka instance

Omeka 1.5

(End user

contribution)

Omeka 2.x

(Responsive

design)

● 441 published items (635 in total)

● 6 x digitized oral histories (MP3 files to

stream) - more to come

● Neatline map of Truganina State School

● Interactive timeline

● Flexible searching options

○ Keyword

○ Browse

○ Map-based

○ Advanced (boolean, additional filters etc.)

Omeka 1.5

(End user

contribution)

Omeka 2.x

(Responsive

design)

Omeka 1.5

(End user

contribution)

Omeka 2.x

(Responsive

design)

Omeka 1.5

(End user

contribution)

Omeka 2.x

(Responsive

design)

Omeka 1.5

(End user

contribution)

Omeka 2.x

(Responsive

design)

Omeka 1.5

(End user

contribution)

Omeka 2.x

(Responsive

design)

Omeka 1.5

(End user

contribution)

Omeka 2.x

(Responsive

design)

Omeka 1.5

(End user

contribution)

Omeka 2.x

(Responsive

design)

Omeka 1.5

(End user

contribution)

Omeka 2.x

(Responsive

design)

Omeka 1.5

(End user

contribution)

Omeka 2.x

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design)

Omeka 1.5

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contribution)

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design)

Onwards and upwards!

Omeka 1.5

(End user

contribution)

Omeka 2.x

(Responsive

design)

● CONTRIBUTION PLUGIN!

● Comprehensive, thoroughly researched

Werribee WW1 ANZAC exhibit to coincide

with centenary.

● More maps! including:

○ Original annotated shire surveyor maps

○ Charming hand-drawn maps of

pastoralist estates (to overlay on google

map layer?)

○ flora/fauna survey results of werribee

river association

Omeka 1.5

(End user

contribution)

Omeka 2.x

(Responsive

design) “Eric Davis, Alex Muir and Eliza Davis.,” Wyndham History, accessed March 18, 2014, http://www.wyndhamhistory.net.au/items/show/1192.

Questions?