Using Omeka S for our project: De Grachtwacht

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For the foundation where I volunteer I set up an Omeka S instance showing our collection. It’s called De Grachtwacht and each Sunday we kayak with waste grabbers through the canals of Leiden (The Netherlands) to collect all sorts of floating litter. Most of it obviously goes (again) to trash, but we keep the most unusual finds to tell stories that we should take better care of our environment.

We launched the first site that uses Omeka a few weeks ago, in which we exhibit all of the collected ‘rubber ducks’ from the water from the past few years. The information is all in Dutch, but you should still have a good time looking at the photo’s.

Link: https://degrachtwacht.nl/archief/s/eend/
Main website: https://degrachtwacht.nl/ (This does not use Omeka but uses Grav CMS)

It’s running a rather heavily modified version of the Foundation theme. Thanks to everyone from the Omeka S team for making a great open-source system :slight_smile:

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Great site! Great humor! “Foundeendion” theme :joy:

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Thats great! I wonder what ontology you used for the rubber ducks attributes? :smile: Cheers, from Leeuwarden

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Ha thanks! We created our own ontology for those properties as, rather surprisingly :laughing:, I couldn’t find any proper fit.

Before this we didn’t use any formal system so in our previous project(s) we lacked a good way to add additional information or put in references (if needed). Omeka might in some ways be too formal for the way we use it, but it does provide the right tools and customization!

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Congratulations with this nice and humorous website (“WC-eend” :laughing: ) and respect for your initiative to keep our environment clean. Keep up the good work!