Blacklight VS Omeka

Blacklight mentions (0)

Omeka mentions (8)

• Indexing / filtering lots of images and their metadata

  Omeka (https://omeka.org/) is OSS and has a REST API. Usually used by museums/libraries, but primary function is to upload and describe media files. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: What not-profit-seeking project are you tinkering with this week?

  Adding new features to listmonk (mailing list / newsletter manager), preparing for its next release. https://github.com/knadh/listmonk Setting up and playing around with Omeka, a brilliant document publishing system, to help publish an archive of digitised physical books and documents. https://omeka.org. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• How are historians recording and preserving the COVID-19 pandemic?

  If you Google "COVID-19 digital archive" you can also find a range of projects with different focuses. A benefit of technology is that now many organizations can create their own Omeka site and build a collection to document events in real time. However, I hope the post above demonstrates that while anyone can, any historian utilizing these various resources need to consider the practices undertaken to gather... Source: over 2 years ago

• Seeking recommendation for building an art collection archive

  Yes to this and other free, open source solutions such as Omeka. Source: over 2 years ago

• Curatorial software recommendation?

  Sounds pretty specialist. Why not take a look at Omeka S (https://omeka.org). It’s intended for collection display and semantic connections between items, but it can be used for anything really and could very well fit your criteria with a bit of customisation. You would need an existing ontology to make it work (or be prepared to create one). Good luck! Source: almost 3 years ago