OmekaS
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@jdaviescoates and team
I accept with pleasure, even if I'm not a developer and I learned more than I gave -
@nebulon
Are we working on Omeka Classic as well? Still working out whats better for my needs. -
@bubonicfred god question
It's not entirely clear to me from the website the difference.
Seems OmekaS is multi-site and Classic is not.
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@bubonicfred I started with both. Now that the Omeka S application is released, I'm going to move forward with the finalization of the Omeka Classic application. You can already try it:
I still have to configure the Ldap plugin and test Omeka Classic App with official plugins.
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@timconsidine Basically, Omeka Classic is designed for a single site around a general theme, argument, or research question. Omeka S was created for institutions managing a sharable resource pool across multiple sites. Omeka Classic uses Dublin Core while Omeka S implements multiple vocabularies and facilitates linked open data. Omeka S is a new version of the Omeka software that complements rather than replaces Omeka Classic.
Recently we organized the French-speaking meetings Omeka - Scientific, cultural and/or documentary projects in Nancy (France), Megan R. Brett Outreach Lead for the Omeka family of projects at Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media assured us that both projects will be maintained for the coming years. The Omeka team also confirmed that Omeka Classic will continue to be maintained.
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@jeau thanks for all your effort in creating this app for collectionmanagement. Our museum (small museum, volunteers only) is looking for a replacement for our current (offline outdated software) and we’re discovering and testing Omeka S for a few weeks now.
The downside of Omeka S is that it’s primarily focused and developed for the US, in Europe most museums are focused on Spectrum (https://collectionstrust.org.uk/spectrum/) and that’s not available in Omeka S. Also the activity on their forum is not highly active and/or helpful (according to the unanswered questions).
Do you have any ideas or time to develop an app with CollectiveAccess (https://collectiveaccess.org/) to combine Providence and Pawtucket2)?
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@jeau Thank you : much clearer now.
This might be a bit strange thought direction, but as user facing a choice of S vs Classic, I'm tending towards S because there's nothing S cannot do which Classic can, and I can presumably have a single-site S, so I might as well start with S, if needed extend it into multi-site, or just keep running as single-site.
Basically no downside to choosing S, and get the benefits of flexibility if needed in future.
Hope that makes sense.
I saw a couple of Omeka example sites which were bit basic in design, but I saw one which was awesome in design, layout, clarity. Very much encouraged me to think about using Omeka. Great environment.
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@timconsidine said in OmekaS:
but I saw one which was awesome in design, layout, clarity.
Can we have a link please?
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@imc67 I don't know CollectiveAccess and I have no time to develop an app. It must be doable in the same way as for Omeka.
CollectiveAccess and Spectrum are focused on musem activities and procedures: collections management, events, entities, exhibitions, etc.
Omeka claims to be at the crossroads between web content management, collection management and digital collection archiving systems, and also at the intersection of librarians, archivists, cultural content creators, teachers, researchers, students or museum professionals (curators, educators, vendors) interests. It does not have all the features of the best softwares in each of these areas. It has the main ones to manage collections and to publish sites or exhibitions.
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@timconsidine You are right, however, you have to see your real needs. Maybe the simplicity of Omeka Classic is better for yours users. Some excellent plugins doesn't exists or are still in development for Omeka S, like Neatline; even though many have been ported to Omeka S.
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Can we have a link please?
Yeah, sorry, I was being a bit vague. Memory was failing.
And now when I look for it, I can't recall which one impressed me. I think it was about American diplomat's life in Africa and his collection of artefacts which was now in a museum or university. Bat sadly recall his name.I did look on https://omeka.org/classic/showcase/ and https://omeka.org/classic/directory/ : you might find something to interest/impress you there.
In the absence of of the American diplomat's African collection, I would probably point to :
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@timconsidine maybe this site (I used a screenshot for Omeka app)
I like this https://collections.maison-salins.fr/
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@jeau neither the actual one I had in mind, but both are just as good as whatever it was I saw.
I especially like the 2nd one https://collections.maison-salins.fr/
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@timconsidine re-reading your message, it may be this one: https://exhibitions.psu.edu/s/african-brilliance/page/splash
(if they want it? 
