Overview

Omeka S is a web publication system for universities, galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. It consists of a local network of independently curated exhibits sharing a collaboratively built pool of items, media, and their metadata. Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Its five-minute setup makes launching an online archive or exhibition as easy as launching a blog. The project has 475 GitHub stars and is licensed under GPL-3.0.

Getting Started

Source: GitHub README

Make sure Node.js and npm are installed
Clone this repository in your Apache web directory:
- $ git clone https://github.com/omeka/omeka-s.git
Change into the Omeka S directory:
- $ cd omeka-s
Perform first-time setup:
- $ npm install
- $ npx gulp init
Open config/database.ini and add your MySQL username, password, database name, and host name. The user and database must be created before this step.
Make sure the files/ directory is writable by Apache. 1

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

mysql, npm.

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