What is Omeka?
Omeka is a user-friendly and flexible content management system for digital collections. It is widely used by museums, libraries, archives, and educators to highlight and contextualize archival materials and objects. Many users like Omeka for the ease with which they can upload items and create sleek digital exhibits. Another attractive feature of Omeka is its use of the Dublin Core schema for organizing metadata and describing digital materials.
How do people and institutions use Omeka?
Omeka is used in a variety of ways including sharing collections, gathering stories, building exhibits, "mapping" images, collaborating, and much more. Examples of sites that were built in Omeka are the most illustrative testament to Omeka's flexibility:
How do I navigate this tutorial?
This tutorial is designed to be used as a reference, as a step-by-step guide to building an exhibition, or both. To move through the tutorial linearly, click the link at the bottom each page. To reference parts of this site, use the navigation at the top right-hand side of the page.