University of Jyväskylä - our first Omeka S sites live

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Hello all,

Just to add more examples of Omeka S sites in production, here are couple of sites we (University of Jyväskylä) have recently published. Our primary usecase is to use Omeka S as an easier-to-modify frontend to our DSpace-based institutional repository as customizing looks of DSpace is outright painful :slight_smile:

First two sites are populated directly from our repository via Omeka S REST API

https://expo.oscapps.jyu.fi/s/ecological-awareness-in-chinese-contemporary-art
https://expo.oscapps.jyu.fi/s/pedaforum2016/page/pedaforum

Our third site, called Vanhakartta (Old Map) is a showcase for old maps mainly from the geographical area of Finland and accompanying content. The previous version of the site was built using custom Plone-based CMS and the codebase was getting old (10 years) so we decided to rebuild the site completely using Omeka S.
The content is mainly in Finnish.

https://expo.oscapps.jyu.fi/s/vanhakartta/page/sanson-family-as-cartographers-of-finland

Many thanks to Omeka S development team and independent devs around the world for your amazing work!

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Thank you for sharing that! It look good.

Is the theme for the third site available online (or will it be)?

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Thanks! The theme of the third site is slighly modified Center Row theme. Our quick and dirty modifications are available here: https://github.com/mjlassila/oldmaps

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Hi Matti,

Impressive. Out of curiosity what version of DSpace are you using? I’ve done some basic testing with the DSpace connector module. Can you, briefly, say a bit more about the content on the ‘pedaforum’ site?

https://expo.oscapps.jyu.fi/s/pedaforum2016/page/pedaforum

Also can you give examples of a page with links back to your DSpace instance.

Final question, are you thinking about working with IIIF with DSpace and/or Omeka?

Thanks!

Carl