Our library is in the process of the early stages of Omeka S rollout. To assist our librarians with choosing a theme for their sites, we’d like to provide a list of 2 to 3 sample sites from other institutions on each of the 9 themes on Omeka S. We would be greatly appreciative if the community could provide sites built by their institution, ideally those with minimal CSS editing and plugin usage. I also figure that such a list would likely prove useful to others.
We do use several modules that affect the way the website looks. The most important ones are listed below:
Faceted Browse module. We make heavy use of this module, which allows us to build custom browse interfaces like this Events faceted browse page.
Metadata Browse module, configured to turn the Keywords property into a hyperlink that searches for other items with the same keywords (example item with Keyword property filled in: 1812, Kate, Removal)
URI Dereferencer, used to pull in a snippet of info from Wikidata where applicable. (Example item: William Livingston, see Same As property and click the plus sign next to the Wikidata link to see what the URI Dereferencer module does.)
Numeric Data Types module, which simply adds the ability to use date and integer data types.
CSSEditor module, allows the user to add snippets that override default CSS styles without directly editing CSS files on the server. We only have one line in our CSS Editor: .resource-name {display:inline-block;} No other CSS changes have been made to the theme.
There are other modules that are more for the admin side of things, including:
Bulk Edit (use this frequently to edit multiple records at once)
CSV Import (our main way for adding items to Omeka S)
Custom Vocab (allows us to add custom controlled vocabularies for use with specific properties)
File Sideload (helps with our workflow for adding images to items)
Sitemaps (generates sitemaps to help search engines index our site)
Here’s Reepham Archive using the Seasons theme with very little customisation. I wish I could do more, but our group doesn’t have the programming skills.
