With IPower hosting Pro Plan, you can host any blog website with unlimited bandwidth, unlimited disk space with free 1 domain name. There is a great tool “Omeka” by IPower Hosting that allows cultural institutions and private users to publish exhibitions and collections online. This Omeka is free, flexible, kind like a WordPress blog for collections or exhibits, it is easy-to-use without programming knowledge, supports a variety of rich-format images, and gives users creative control of the final product. It is ideal for people who are looking for web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions.
The Components of Omeka are contained Items Archive, Exhibit Builder, User Management, Site Setting: General, Themes, Plugins. Item Archive: Add/Edit Items, Add/Edit Collections, Add/Edit Item Types, Manage Tags. Plugins can also define new output formats. Existing formats include XHTML, JSON, XML, Dublin Core RDF, RSS2. You can switch between output formats by adding a query parameter to the URL.
Until now, scholars and cultural heritage professionals looking to publish collections-based research and online exhibitions required either extensive technical skills or considerable funding for outside vendors. By making standards based, serious online publishing easy, Omeka puts the power and reach of the web in the hands of academics and cultural professional themselves.
Example Plugins:
- COins:
-Spits out COins spans for all your items, making Omeka compatible with Zotero.
-Eventual goal would be round-tripping through Zotero (export RDF from Zotero, import to Omeka). - Dropbox:
- Overcome the limitations of uploading files through HTTP by ingesting file directly into your Omeka install via FTP. - Mapping:
- Associate your items with geo data and plot them on a map - TagSuggest:
- Suggest ways to tag an item based on its text content. - Contribution:
- Collect and archive submissions from the general public.
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