Our work on Omeka is oriented toward adapting it for use in research and special collections libraries and with scholarly digital projects that build on library- or museum-managed archival resources. Initial test cases will include a set of UVA Special Collections exhibits and a project in collaboration with architectural historian Louis Nelson.
To this end, the Scholars’ Lab is currently developing several plugins for the Omeka platform.
- EADImporter: EADImporter opens archival connections by allowing users to absorb Encoded Archival Description XML documents (the standard way for archives to describe their contents) into an Omeka repository.
- Timeline: Add SIMILE Timeline widgets to Omeka.
- FedoraConnector: FedoraConnector will make it possible to use objects from a Fedora Commons repository inside Omeka. This will permit users to comment on, annotate, and curate objects in the Fedora repository while using the simple, easy-to-learn Omeka interface.
- GenericXmlImporter: Import any arbitrary, flat XML data in to Omeka
- NeatlineFeatures: NeatlineFeatures will allow users to visually manipulate geographic features with simple editors and combine features with material from NeatlineMaps to create even more powerful interactive maps..
- NeatlineMaps: NeatlineMaps connects the powerful open-source geospatial server GeoServer and Omeka. It permits users to ingest georeferenced images into Omeka and use them as parts of interactive maps.
- SolrSearch: Use the Solr search engine with Omeka.
- VRACoreElementSet: Bring the VRA Core Element Set in to Omeka
We @Omeka @CHNM can’t say enough how excited we are about this work. You folks are opening up whole new worlds
[...] might not be interested in the whole geospatial workflow of Neatline proper, and to capitalize on other Omeka-related work happening in the Scholars' Lab. Here, Adam gives a quick update on work in progress. In a future [...]
Ready to officially release the first public version of EadImporter!
[...] or historical content of archival collections. We’re using Omeka as a platform, creating plugins that provide rich capabilities to manipulate and exhibit geospatial information as part of a [...]
[...] but also contribute back to the larger community effort, if the tools were thought of as a suite of Omeka plugins. This follows a general turn the Scholars’ Lab has taken in how it approaches new projects, [...]
Awesome projects here, and I’m super interested in your FedoraConnector plugin. How is that project coming along?
@Walker,
Check out the latest code from the trunk: https://addons.omeka.org/svn/plugins/FedoraConnector/trunk/ It “works” in the sense that there’s a facade for the objects in Fedora now, and Adam Soroka has been adding some more improvements. If you’re up to it, try it out. If you have questions, you can contact us here, or on the omeka-dev list (http://groups.google.com/group/omeka-dev/)
That’s great. I’m away from the Fedora repository I’m thinking of right now, but I definitely want to check it out when I get back to that system.