Omeka
Omeka
Omeka is a web-based application for curation and discovery of digital cultural heritage collections and other online resources.
Omeka allows you to showcase collections whilst retaining the importance of standards-based metadata, with an easy to use administrative interface and the benefit of a global open source community for support.
Overview
Omeka was originally built by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media with support and funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to address the gap in the market for museums, libraries, and archives wishing to publish collections and narrative exhibits to the web as easily as one could launch a blog.
Omeka has a flexible plugin architecture and rich design theme API, geolocation, and the ability to integrate metadata vocabularies used for describing visual resources.
Benefits
- Outstanding public interfaces that promote user engagement and collections within organisations
- Ease of system administration results in lower staffing demand
- Light web environment results in reduced need for IT involvement
- Intuitive and fast workflows reduce staff training needs for a new system and supports staff efficiency
- Sophisticated and easy to use analytic capability improves archive service planning and statistical modelling
- All of these benefits together boost the overall return on investment and value for money being achieved by the archive service.
Omeka homepage on the Open Fifth demo system
Open source community
As open source software, the products we work with come with fantastic communities to support your library or archive to get the most out of them.
Omeka has an online forum packed with resources to help you get started, share what you’ve created or are working on, and post questions.
Support
As an ISO 27001:2022 certified company, Open Fifth has an excellent reputation for the quality of the support service that is delivered. Our staff are highly skilled and all have many years’ experience in working in the library sector. We support over a hundred organisations, many of which have high expectations and requirements for quality of the service that we deliver. We can only provide this service due to the high quality and experience of our staff.
When choosing a hosted solution, there is no ongoing responsibility on staff to maintain and configure the infrastructure or application. We’ll take care of that for you, freeing up libraries and archives to do what they do best.