While Omeka.net is great for learning, you will want to move to Omeka.org, or Omeka Classic, for sustained work, as it is more robust, with more applications and maneuverability. If you can see yourself moving to a larger institutional context, with more links to other materials and collections in your own record keeping system, Omeka S is the platform to choose. The question of migrating records from Omeka Classic to Omeka S has been raised many times, and while it is possible, it is not easy, as I understand it. You can find out more by asking on the Omeka Forum, a lively user community.
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Colin Windhorst, PhD
Digital Curation
University of Maine
Orono, Maine, USA
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-15-2018 09:37 AM
From: Greg Moss
Subject: Use of Omeka software
We are looking to build a virtual museum of scales, weights and measures. After researching several alternatives, our leading choice of a platform is the Omeka software, which is used by several museums, large and small. Specific questions:
- What cautions or down sides are there to using their hosting on Omeka.net rather than hosting it on our own?
- When setting up the site, what are those "I wish we would have..." early steps that make things go easier?
- What photo size do you recommend? (Our current experiments suggest 500 KB to 1 MB)
- Other recommendations?
Thanks!
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Greg Moss
Museum Planning Committee
International Society of Antique Scale Collectors (www.isasc.org)
Pittsburgh, PA
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