Omeka
This collection brings together 26 source-verified institutional cases involving Omeka: Adopted Omeka S (1), Bespoke HTML → Omeka S (1), Bespoke system → Omeka (1), CONTENTdm → Omeka (3), CONTENTdm → Omeka S (1), Custom database → Omeka S (1), Documented implementation (1), Documented implementation alongside paper inventory (1), Fragmented strategies → Omeka S (1), Legacy database → Omeka S (1), Legacy platforms → Omeka S (1), Legacy portals → Omeka S (1), Legacy presentation → Omeka S (1), Legacy repository → Omeka S (1), Legacy web portals → Omeka S (1), Legacy → Omeka S (1), Operational adoption (8). A migration is identified only when the source documents a predecessor or transfer; other cases are classified as implementations or operational adoptions.
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Comunidad Homosexual Argentina — Memorias de la CHA
The Comunidad Homosexual Argentina (CHA) operates “Memorias de la CHA,” a public repository for digitized historical records. Its user guide states that the site is…
Museo de Informática — Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, Unidad Académica Río Gallegos
The Museo de Informática at UNPA-UARG adopted Omeka in 2015 to document its collection of computing equipment. A study of the museum’s cataloguing and inventory…
Australian Research Data Commons — Curated Collections
The Australian Research Data Commons 'Curated Collections' project set out to rescue at-risk Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) and Indigenous data held on…
Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO)
The Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO) in Chile developed its Biblioteca Digital on Omeka S, first launched in 2017 and later rebuilt as a second version. Using…
CY Cergy Paris Université (LT2D)
The 'Musée Virtuel des Dictionnaires', a lexicographical research resource first established in 2002, underwent a major modernisation at CY Cergy Paris Université.…
Université Gustave Eiffel
To simplify maintenance of a highly specialised historical database on the civic priests of the Roman imperial cult, Université Gustave Eiffel partnered with the…
Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPKE), PETER repository
Pázmány Péter Catholic University’s institutional repository portal, PETER, brings together several collection services. The university’s repository information…
University of Szeged (SZTE), Klebelsberg Library and Archives
The Klebelsberg Library and Archives at the University of Szeged uses separate open-source platforms for scholarly publications and visual collections. A conference…
Maastricht University Library
Maastricht University Library adopted Omeka S to bring its digital collections into a Linked Open Data and IIIF environment, aligned with the Dutch National Digital…
Foksal Gallery Archive (Archiwum Galerii Foksal)
The Foksal Gallery Archive publishes digitized photographs, documents and publications through an Omeka installation. Its public collection contains populated item…
Giżycko Municipal Public Library (Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna w Giżycku), Giżycko Digital Archive
The Giżycko Municipal Public Library operates the Giżycko Digital Archive (Giżyckie Archiwum Cyfrowe), a public collection of local photographs and documents. The…
Ignatianum University in Kraków (Uniwersytet Ignatianum w Krakowie), Jesuit Digital Archive
Ignatianum University’s Jesuit Digital Archive (Jezuickie Archiwum Cyfrowe, JAC) publishes digitized archival descriptions and documents through an Omeka…
Museum of Kępno Land (Muzeum Ziemi Kępińskiej), Cyfrowe Archiwum Ziemi Kępińskiej
The Museum of Kępno Land operates the Cyfrowe Archiwum Ziemi Kępińskiej on Omeka. The live archive provides item search and populated descriptions of local heritage…
Muzyka Zakorzeniona Foundation (Fundacja Muzyka Zakorzeniona), Archiwum Pieśni
The Muzyka Zakorzeniona Foundation operates Archiwum Pieśni, a populated online collection of traditional song recordings and transcriptions. A song record for…
Zygmunt Krasiński District Public Library in Ciechanów (Powiatowa Biblioteka Publiczna im. Zygmunta Krasińskiego w Ciechanowie)
The Ciechanowska Biblioteka Cyfrowa is a populated digital collection operated by the Zygmunt Krasiński District Public Library in Ciechanów. Its browse pages…
University of Cape Town (Ibali)
The University of Cape Town launched 'Ibali' (isiXhosa for 'story'), a university-wide digital-collections showcase built on Omeka S and a dedicated IIIF media…
University of Pretoria
The University of Pretoria is bringing its rare and heritage collections online through the open-source Omeka S platform as part of the university's GLAM…
Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla
Seeking to move beyond static, disjointed exhibitions of its rare books and manuscripts, the Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla implemented 'ExpoBUS' —…
University of Manchester
Finding that generic platforms like WordPress lacked essential digital-library features, the University of Manchester's Research IT team built 'Manchester Digital…
Creighton University (DePorres Club Archive)
Creighton University uses Omeka S to present a richly narrative digital archive of the DePorres Club — documenting the intersection of Jesuit history and the Omaha…
Dartmouth College Library
Dartmouth College Library uses Omeka S — built out with the digital-humanities agency Agile Humanities — as the platform for its online exhibits, among them…
Grand Valley State University
Grand Valley State University in Michigan hit the item ceiling of its CONTENTdm licence — nearly 50,000 items — and needed an affordable, scalable platform that…
Jefferson County Public Library
To preserve and share local oral histories, Jefferson County Public Library in Colorado left its legacy CONTENTdm constraints for an open-access approach — and…
September 11 Digital Archive
The September 11 Digital Archive is a pioneering crowdsourced collection documenting the 2001 attacks and their aftermath, and one of the first major digital…
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
For its 'New Roots' oral-history project, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill kept CONTENTdm as the storage backend but extracted its metadata to…
University of Utah — Marriott Library
After more than fifteen years on CONTENTdm, the University of Utah's Marriott Library wanted to treat its collections as raw, reusable data rather than records…