CONTENTdm → Omeka
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 populate a dedicated, public-facing Omeka site. The team deliberately trimmed an exhaustive legacy metadata schema down to the fields users actually needed, and pulled geographic coordinates out of CONTENTdm to drive an interactive mapping plugin in Omeka, visualising immigrants' journeys across space and time. A neat example of using Omeka as an engaging public layer over a legacy system, and of crosswalking coordinate data to enrich oral-history discovery.
Original source
New Roots: An Oral History Metadata Case Study at UNC Chapel Hill
Oral History in the Digital Age (Michigan State University)
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