I’ve been using OMEKA this semester to produce a class website that includes a digital facsimile, transcript, and readerly edition of a manuscript.  Additional materials produced by students have included GoogleMaps & GoogleEarth maps, a Glogster page, and a Flash exhibit.  It’s running on an Amazon AMI, and can be seen at 23.21.246.240/ . As part of this I’ve started using a variety of plugins, and had to start playing around with Omeka’s style and plugins.  I’d love a session that talks about how to get your feet wet with plugin organization, development, changing the Omeka themes, adding fields to the MySQL database that backs Omeka up, etc.

If anyone’s interested, I’d be happy to teach an introductory workshop on Omeka, which is a system for easily creating digital archives and online exhibits from those archives. I’ve used it in teaching, before, as well, and could talk a bit about that. See omeka.org and omeka.net to learn more. Here’s the description for the workshop I taught on it at THATCamp Kansas last year (I’ve taught this MANY times):

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Omeka is a simple system used by scholarly archives, libraries, and museums all over the world to manage and describe digital images, audio files, videos, and texts; to put such digital objects online in a searchable database; and to create attractive web exhibits from them. In this introduction to Omeka, you’ll create your own digital archive of images, audio, video, and texts that meets scholarly metadata standards and creates a search engine-optimized website. We’ll go over the difference between the hosted version of Omeka and the open source server-side version of Omeka, and we’ll learn about the Dublin Core metadata standard for describing digital objects. We’ll also look at some examples of pedagogical use of Omeka in humanities courses and talk about assigning students to create digital archives in individual or group projects.