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	In December 2008, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University was awarded a technology collaboration award by the Andrew Mellon Foundation for its work on Omeka.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/announcement/recipients-third-annual-mellon-awards-technology-collaboration-announced \|title=Recipients of Third Annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration Announce \|author=Roy, Michael \|publisher=Academic Commons \|date=10 December 2008 \|accessdate=2 April 2012}}</ref> On June 2, 2009, version 1.0 of Omeka was publicly released.<ref name="TW1.0" />		In December 2008, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University was awarded a technology collaboration award by the Andrew Mellon Foundation for its work on Omeka.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/announcement/recipients-third-annual-mellon-awards-technology-collaboration-announced \|title=Recipients of Third Annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration Announce \|author=Roy, Michael \|publisher=Academic Commons \|date=10 December 2008 \|accessdate=2 April 2012}}</ref> On June 2, 2009, version 1.0 of Omeka was publicly released.<ref name="TW1.0" />

	Version 1.5 of Omeka was released on February 7, 2012, with new features such as multilingual support, file extension awareness, and file reordering.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://omeka.org/codex/Release_Notes_for_1.5 \|title=Release Notes for 1.5 \|publisher=Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media \|date=7 February 2012 \|accessdate=2 April 2012}}</ref> A version 2.0 release is tentatively set for the summer of 2012.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://omeka.org/about/roadmap/ \|title=Roadmap - Omeka \|publisher=Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media \|accessdate=2 April 2012}}</ref>		Version 1.5 of Omeka was released on February 7, 2012, with new features such as multilingual support, file extension awareness, and file reordering.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://omeka.org/codex/Release_Notes_for_1.5 \|title=Release Notes for 1.5 \|publisher=Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media \|date=7 February 2012 \|accessdate=2 April 2012}}</ref>

	==Features==		==Features==

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	Omeka's origins lie in several historical archive projects that were independently in production at George Mason University's Center for History and New Media, including the September 11 Digital Archive and the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank.<ref name="IHEStory" /> With the desire "to create some kind of system that would allow collecting institutions to mount rich narratives,"<ref name="IHEStory" /> the center started work on a more robust application in late-2006, producing a private beta shortly afterward. After significant testing, that beta went public on February 20, 2008.<ref name="IHEStory" />		Omeka's origins lie in several historical archive projects that were independently in production at George Mason University's Center for History and New Media, including the September 11 Digital Archive and the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank.<ref name="IHEStory" /> With the desire "to create some kind of system that would allow collecting institutions to mount rich narratives,"<ref name="IHEStory" /> the center started work on a more robust application in late 2006, producing a private beta shortly afterward. After significant testing, that beta went public on February 20, 2008.<ref name="IHEStory" />

	In December 2008, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University was awarded a technology collaboration award by the Andrew Mellon Foundation for its work on Omeka.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/announcement/recipients-third-annual-mellon-awards-technology-collaboration-announced \|title=Recipients of Third Annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration Announce \|author=Roy, Michael \|publisher=Academic Commons \|date=10 December 2008 \|accessdate=2 April 2012}}</ref> On June 2, 2009, version 1.0 of Omeka was publicly released.<ref name="TW1.0" />		In December 2008, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University was awarded a technology collaboration award by the Andrew Mellon Foundation for its work on Omeka.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/announcement/recipients-third-annual-mellon-awards-technology-collaboration-announced \|title=Recipients of Third Annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration Announce \|author=Roy, Michael \|publisher=Academic Commons \|date=10 December 2008 \|accessdate=2 April 2012}}</ref> On June 2, 2009, version 1.0 of Omeka was publicly released.<ref name="TW1.0" />

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	'''Omeka''' (which in Swahili roughly translates as "to display," "to lay out for discussion," or "to unpack"<ref name="IHEStory">{{cite web \|url=http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/02/20/omeka \|title=New Tool for Online Collections \|author=Guess, Andy \|publisher=Inside Higher Ed \|date=20 February 2008 \|accessdate=2 April 2012}}</ref>) is a free open-source web publishing system for online digital archives. Omeka uses an unqualified Dublin Core metadata standard. As it's completely web-based, it allows users to publish cultural heritage objects, extend its functionality with themes and plugins, and curate online exhibits with digital objects. A lightweight solution in comparison to traditional institutional repository software like DSpace, Omeka has a focus on display. Its software is currently being used by the New York Public Library<ref>{{Cite web \|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20081019040138/http://exhibitions.nypl.org/exhibits/eminent \|url=http://exhibitions.nypl.org/exhibits/eminent \|title=Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City \|publisher=New York Public Library \|archivedate=19 October 2008 \|accessdate=2 April 2012}}</ref>, the Newberry Library, as well as many small museums and historical societies. The Missouri School of Journalism uses Omeka to share their archive of 38,000 photographs from the Pictures of the Year International contest.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://archive.poyi.org/ \|title=POYi Archive \|publisher=Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism \|accessdate=2 April 2012}}</ref>		'''Omeka''' (which in Swahili roughly translates as "to display," "to lay out for discussion," or "to unpack"<ref name="IHEStory">{{cite web \|url=http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/02/20/omeka \|title=New Tool for Online Collections \|author=Guess, Andy \|publisher=Inside Higher Ed \|date=20 February 2008 \|accessdate=2 April 2012}}</ref>) is a free open-source web publishing system for online digital archives. Omeka uses an unqualified Dublin Core metadata standard. As it's completely web-based, it allows users to publish cultural heritage objects, extend its functionality with themes and plugins, and curate online exhibits with digital objects. A lightweight solution in comparison to traditional institutional repository software like [[DSpace]], Omeka has a focus on display. Its software is currently being used by the New York Public Library<ref>{{Cite web \|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20081019040138/http://exhibitions.nypl.org/exhibits/eminent \|url=http://exhibitions.nypl.org/exhibits/eminent \|title=Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City \|publisher=New York Public Library \|archivedate=19 October 2008 \|accessdate=2 April 2012}}</ref>, the Newberry Library, as well as many small museums and historical societies. The Missouri School of Journalism uses Omeka to share their archive of 38,000 photographs from the Pictures of the Year International contest.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://archive.poyi.org/ \|title=POYi Archive \|publisher=Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism \|accessdate=2 April 2012}}</ref>

	==Product history==		==Product history==

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	\| released = {{Start date\|2009\|06\|02}}<ref name="TW1.0">{{cite web \|url=http://omeka.org/blog/2009/06/02/omeka-10-drops-today/ \|title=Omeka 1.0 Drops Today \|author=Scheinfeldt, Tom \|publisher=Center for History and New Media \|date=2 June 2009 \|accessdate=31 March 2012}}</ref>		\| released = {{Start date\|2009\|06\|02}}<ref name="TW1.0">{{cite web \|url=http://omeka.org/blog/2009/06/02/omeka-10-drops-today/ \|title=Omeka 1.0 Drops Today \|author=Scheinfeldt, Tom \|publisher=Center for History and New Media \|date=2 June 2009 \|accessdate=31 March 2012}}</ref>
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	'''Omeka''' is a free open-source web publishing system for online digital archives. Omeka uses an unqualified Dublin Core metadata standard. As it's completely web-based, it allows users to publish cultural heritage objects, extend its functionality with themes and plugins, and curate online exhibits with digital objects. A ~~light-weight~~ solution in comparison to traditional institutional repository software like DSpace, Omeka has a focus on display. Its software is currently being used by the New York Public Library~~[1]~~, the Newberry Library, as well as many small museums and historical societies. The Missouri School of Journalism uses Omeka to share their archive of 38,000 photographs from the Pictures of the Year International contest.[2]		'''Omeka''' (which in Swahili roughly translates as "to display," "to lay out for discussion," or "to unpack"<ref name="IHEStory">{{cite web \|url=http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/02/20/omeka \|title=New Tool for Online Collections \|author=Guess, Andy \|publisher=Inside Higher Ed \|date=20 February 2008 \|accessdate=2 April 2012}}</ref>) is a free open-source web publishing system for online digital archives. Omeka uses an unqualified Dublin Core metadata standard. As it's completely web-based, it allows users to publish cultural heritage objects, extend its functionality with themes and plugins, and curate online exhibits with digital objects. A lightweight solution in comparison to traditional institutional repository software like DSpace, Omeka has a focus on display. Its software is currently being used by the New York Public Library<ref>{{Cite web \|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20081019040138/http://exhibitions.nypl.org/exhibits/eminent \|url=http://exhibitions.nypl.org/exhibits/eminent \|title=Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City \|publisher=New York Public Library \|archivedate=19 October 2008 \|accessdate=2 April 2012}}</ref>, the Newberry Library, as well as many small museums and historical societies. The Missouri School of Journalism uses Omeka to share their archive of 38,000 photographs from the Pictures of the Year International contest.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://archive.poyi.org/ \|title=POYi Archive \|publisher=Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism \|accessdate=2 April 2012}}</ref>

	~~Developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Omeka was recently awarded a technology collaboration award by the Andrew Mellon Foundation.[3]~~		==Product history==

	==~~Product history~~==		Omeka's origins lie in several historical archive projects that were independently in production at George Mason University's Center for History and New Media, including the September 11 Digital Archive and the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank.<ref name="IHEStory" /> With the desire "to create some kind of system that would allow collecting institutions to mount rich narratives,"<ref name="IHEStory" /> the center started work on a more robust application in late-2006, producing a private beta shortly afterward. After significant testing, that beta went public on February 20, 2008.<ref name="IHEStory" />

			In December 2008, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University was awarded a technology collaboration award by the Andrew Mellon Foundation for its work on Omeka.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/announcement/recipients-third-annual-mellon-awards-technology-collaboration-announced \|title=Recipients of Third Annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration Announce \|author=Roy, Michael \|publisher=Academic Commons \|date=10 December 2008 \|accessdate=2 April 2012}}</ref> On June 2, 2009, version 1.0 of Omeka was publicly released.<ref name="TW1.0" />

			Version 1.5 of Omeka was released on February 7, 2012, with new features such as multilingual support, file extension awareness, and file reordering.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://omeka.org/codex/Release_Notes_for_1.5 \|title=Release Notes for 1.5 \|publisher=Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media \|date=7 February 2012 \|accessdate=2 April 2012}}</ref> A version 2.0 release is tentatively set for the summer of 2012.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://omeka.org/about/roadmap/ \|title=Roadmap - Omeka \|publisher=Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media \|accessdate=2 April 2012}}</ref>

	==Features==		==Features==

	~~Features~~ of ~~Alfresco include~~:		The many features of Omeka can be discovered in a PDF file found on the [http://omeka.org/files/docs/Featurelist.pdf Omeka website].

			==Hardware/software requirements==

			Omeka runs on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, [[MySQL]], PHP) software bundle and thus has the following installation requirements:

	~~==Hardware/software requirements==~~		* Linux operating system
			* Apache HTTP server (with mod_rewrite enabled)
			* MySQL 5.0 or greater
			* PHP 5.2.4 or greater (with mysqli and exif extensions installed)
			* ImageMagick

	~~Installation requirements may vary from Community to Enterprise edition. Learn more about these requirements via the~~ [http://~~www~~.~~alfresco.com/resources~~/~~documentation~~/ ~~Alfresco documentation~~].		Additional server settings and PHP suggestions can be found [http://omeka.org/codex/Preparing_to_Install here].

	==Videos, screenshots, and other media==		==Videos, screenshots, and other media==

	Screenshots for ~~Alfresco~~ can be found on ~~the~~ [http://~~sourceforge~~.~~net~~/~~projects~~/~~alfresco~~/ ~~SourceForge site~~].		Screenshots for Omeka can be found on [http://www.flickr.com/photos/meedan/sets/72157626507847456/ Meedan's Flickr page].

	~~Videos~~ of ~~Alfresco~~ in action can also be found on their [http://~~www~~.~~youtube.com~~/~~profile?user=alfresco101&view=videos YouTube channel~~].		Numerous videos of Omeka in action can also be found on their [http://omeka.org/codex/Screencasts website].

	Access the online demo [http://~~www~~.~~alfresco.com~~/~~try~~/ here].		Access the online demo [http://omeka.org/codex/Try_Omeka_Before_Installing here].

	==Entities using ~~Alfresco~~==		==Entities using Omeca==

	Examples of entities using ~~both the Community and Enterprise editions of Alfresco~~ include:		Examples of entities using Omeka include:

	~~Aker Oilfield Services~~, ~~Boise Cascade~~, ~~Christian Science Monitor~~, ~~Cisco~~, ~~CRIX~~, ~~EADS~~, ~~Estrella Galicia~~, ~~Harvard Business School Publishing, Hagos, H&R Block, La Poste~~, ~~Merck~~, ~~Molecular NeuroImaging, National Academy of Sciences, Netherlands National Vaccine~~ Institute, New York ~~Philharmonic~~, ~~North West~~ University, ~~NXP Semiconductors, Office Depot, Orbitz, Plastic Omnium, Shimano~~, ~~Swisscom Mobile Labs~~, ~~University of Westminster~~		Alexandria Archive Institute, BJU Press, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Chicago History Museum, European Science Foundation, Farmers Museum, George Mason University Libraries, George Washington University Libraries, Hawaiian Historical Society, MBL Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, New York Public Library, Oregon State University Libraries, Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Smithsonian Institution, Trinity College Dublin

	A full directory of ~~Alfresco~~ users can be found at the [http://~~www~~.~~alfresco.com~~/~~customers~~/ ~~Alfresco~~ website].		A full directory of Omeka users can be found at the [http://omeka.org/codex/View_Sites_Powered_by_Omeka Omeka website].

	==Further reading==		==Further reading==

	* {{cite web \|url=http://~~www~~.~~alfresco.com~~/~~resources/documentation~~/ \|title=Documentation for ~~Alfresco~~ \|publisher=~~Alfresco Software, Inc}}~~		* {{cite web \|url=http://omeka.org/codex/Documentation \|title=Documentation for Omeka \|publisher=Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media}}
	* {{cite book \|author=Shariff, Munwar; Amita Bhandari; Pallika Majmudar; Vinita Choudhary \|title=Alfresco 3 Web Content Management \|publisher=Packt Publishing \|year=2010 \|pages=440 \|isbn=1847198007}}

	==External links==		==External links==

	* [~~http~~://~~sourceforge~~.~~net~~/~~projects~~/~~alfresco~~/ ~~Alfresco~~] on ~~SourceForge~~		* [https://github.com/omeka/Omeka Omeka] on GitHub
			* [http://vimeo.com/omeka Omeka] on Vimeo

	==References==		==References==

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| name = Omeka
| title = Omeka
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| released = {{Start date|2009|06|02}}<ref name="TW1.0">{{cite web |url=http://omeka.org/blog/2009/06/02/omeka-10-drops-today/ |title=Omeka 1.0 Drops Today |author=Scheinfeldt, Tom |publisher=Center for History and New Media |date=2 June 2009 |accessdate=31 March 2012}}</ref>
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'''Omeka''' is a free open-source web publishing system for online digital archives. Omeka uses an unqualified Dublin Core metadata standard. As it's completely web-based, it allows users to publish cultural heritage objects, extend its functionality with themes and plugins, and curate online exhibits with digital objects. A light-weight solution in comparison to traditional institutional repository software like DSpace, Omeka has a focus on display. Its software is currently being used by the New York Public Library[1], the Newberry Library, as well as many small museums and historical societies. The Missouri School of Journalism uses Omeka to share their archive of 38,000 photographs from the Pictures of the Year International contest.[2]

Developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Omeka was recently awarded a technology collaboration award by the Andrew Mellon Foundation.[3]

==Product history==

==Features==

Features of Alfresco include:

==Hardware/software requirements==

Installation requirements may vary from Community to Enterprise edition. Learn more about these requirements via the [http://www.alfresco.com/resources/documentation/ Alfresco documentation].

==Videos, screenshots, and other media==

Screenshots for Alfresco can be found on the [http://sourceforge.net/projects/alfresco/ SourceForge site].

Videos of Alfresco in action can also be found on their [http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=alfresco101&view=videos YouTube channel].

Access the online demo [http://www.alfresco.com/try/ here].

==Entities using Alfresco==

Examples of entities using both the Community and Enterprise editions of Alfresco include:

Aker Oilfield Services, Boise Cascade, Christian Science Monitor, Cisco, CRIX, EADS, Estrella Galicia, Harvard Business School Publishing, Hagos, H&R Block, La Poste, Merck, Molecular NeuroImaging, National Academy of Sciences, Netherlands National Vaccine Institute, New York Philharmonic, North West University, NXP Semiconductors, Office Depot, Orbitz, Plastic Omnium, Shimano, Swisscom Mobile Labs, University of Westminster

A full directory of Alfresco users can be found at the [http://www.alfresco.com/customers/ Alfresco website].

==Further reading==

* {{cite web |url=http://www.alfresco.com/resources/documentation/ |title=Documentation for Alfresco |publisher=Alfresco Software, Inc}}
* {{cite book |author=Shariff, Munwar; Amita Bhandari; Pallika Majmudar; Vinita Choudhary |title=Alfresco 3 Web Content Management |publisher=Packt Publishing |year=2010 |pages=440 |isbn=1847198007}}

==External links==

* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/alfresco/ Alfresco] on SourceForge

==References==
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