# Has anyone tried Omeka?

Has anyone tried [Omeka](http://omeka.org)? It’s a <span class="caps">PHP</span>/MySQL based, open-source web platform for publishing collections and exhibitions online. Designed for cultural institutions, enthusiasts, and educators, Omeka is easy to install and modify and facilitates community-building around collections and exhibits.

Discovered via [Internet Scout Report](http://scout.wisc.edu/)

*Please add your experiences or comments or alternatives here. Thanks*

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[<span class="caps">OCLC</span> Research to Host <span class="caps">TAI</span> <span class="caps">CHI</span> Omeka Webinar on 8 December at 10 a.m. <span class="caps">PST</span>](http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2009-11-17.htm) – Omeka features a “five-minute setup” that makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog. Designed with non-IT specialists in mind, it allows users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural Web sites to foster user interaction and participation. It also makes top-shelf design easy with a simple and flexible operating system. Omeka’s robust open-source developer and user communities underwrite its stability and sustainability.

In this **free** webinar, Sheila Brennan, Omeka End User Outreach Coordinator and Senior Digital History Associate at the Center for History and New Media (<span class="caps">CHNM</span>), will provide an overview of Omeka. Dave Lester, Omeka Developer Outreach Coordinator and Developer at <span class="caps">CHNM</span>, will provide more technical aspects of the Omeka software.

There’s at least one instance of Omeka at <span class="caps">UCLA</span>. [http://uclawce.ats.ucla.edu/](http://uclawce.ats.ucla.edu/) It’s hosted at <span class="caps">ATS</span> and was used in a class taught by Josh Sternfeld.

- Good review of Omeka, with a use case, in D-Lib: [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march10/kucsma/03kucsma.html](http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march10/kucsma/03kucsma.html)
- [http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/10/28/28readwriteweb-omeka-launches-a-hosted-platform-to-move-mu-34659.html](http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/10/28/28readwriteweb-omeka-launches-a-hosted-platform-to-move-mu-34659.html)