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Development on Omeka began in 2007 when few options existed for museums, libraries, and archives wishing to publish collections and narrative exhibits to the web. The team behind Omeka--originally a part of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media here at George Mason University--believed that publishing accessible collections and exhibitions that used standards-based metadata could be accomplished by building a free, open-source platform that, like blogging software, offered an easy-to-use administrative interface and provided syndication for sharing content. Since its first release in February 2008, Omeka has established itself as a leading open source web publishing platform for digital collections. Subsequently, the software has been downloaded over 500,000 times, and is the content management system for thousands of websites developed by libraries, archives, museums, scholars, and enthusiast users.
Since then, the Omeka team had many requests for a version of the software that had the capacity to support the needs of larger institutions. The team began developing Omeka S to address those needs. Omeka S is a web publishing platform that offers institutions a single point of administration for installation, software upgrades, and the extension of functionality and look and feel for all of the sites developed in the installation.
The following is a list of digital humanities projects that use Omeka S.
The Center for Mason Legacies uses Omeka S for the majority of their digital scholarship.
For more examples of digital humanities projects using Omeka S, see the Omeka S showcase and Omeka S directory.
See these guides for more help with your digital scholarship project.
Data & Digital Scholarship Services staff have created many guides about digital scholarship, which you can view here.
