Guides: Omeka: Getting Started with Omeka

How To Guides

Building an Omeka Exhibit at the Fisher Fine Arts Library:
This LibGuide by Miriam Cady aims to assist those new to digital humanities, or simply first-time users of the platform, navigate the creation of an Omeka exhibit. This guide has grown out of a project using the Centennial collection in the Perkins Rare Book Room at the Fisher Fine Arts Library.

Getting Started

Omeka Workshop Tip Sheet: Getting Started, Terms, and other Resources
Omeka and Neatline Tutorials: Self-directed tutorials in text and video format from the Wired! Lab at Duke University.
Up and Running with Omeka.net by Miriam Posner: Creative Commons licensed session Handout (PDF version, Word version) and Omeka vocabulary handout for Part I of the Omeka workshop delivered at THATCamp Feminisms West.
Creating an Omeka Exhibit: Part II of Miriam Posner's Workshop, download the tutorial as a PDF or Word document.
User Guide for Educators: Instructions for Building a Website in Omeka.net for a Class Project from Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Site Planning Tips from Omeka (Omeka.org): Provides helpful questions to ask during the planning phase of an Omeka exhibit and recommends sketching or wireframing the content of your exhibit before you start!

Controlled Vocabulary and Metadata

What is controlled vocabulary and why is it useful?
The National Informational Standards Organization’s Understanding Metadata (pdf)
What is metadata? A Christmas themed exploration: An easy to read and understand post by Bonnie Swoger that defines what metadata is, how it is used, and how to create it.
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative provides an international standardized metadata schema for describing items in your Omeka site. Because the items are described with a standardized vocabulary, that data can easily be moved into, shared with other systems. See the Omeka Codex: Working with Dublin Core.

Help with Omeka

Ask a Question

Omeka.net: Email CHNM using the Contact form
Omeka.org: Search through the Omeka forums. If you don’t find your answer, post a question.

Thanks to the College of Charleston Libraries for this useful collection of information.