DeManiak 🇿🇦<p>Some thoughts on my preliminary investigation of <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Omeka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Omeka</span></a> ( <a href="https://omeka.org/classic/docs/Installation/Installing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">omeka.org/classic/docs/Install</span><span class="invisible">ation/Installing/</span></a> ).</p><p>Built on pretty standard <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/LAMP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LAMP</span></a> stack. <br>No official docker image that I could find, so of course I built my own.<br>Which reminded me why I HATE php.</p><p>Anyway.</p><p>Some light testing (running locally).<br>Pretty simple to use (good).<br>No fancy ideas about creating "presentation" versions of items, and keeping the original upload "pristine". I am of two minds on this - for now, not a problem for me, but I can see how large archives might be problematic.</p><p>For example, a MOV file needs to be presented as a MP4 for widest audience. And you probably don't want to lose the original. <br>With Omeka that means some manual work on the admin side.</p><p>It support plugins and themes - I'm of two minds here also. Good way<br>to extend functionality and allow for customization, but my experience with such things are not good ito longterm stabililty and maintenance.</p><p>I'm also not super keen on <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/MySQL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MySQL</span></a> as the db, due to recent corruptions issues with my <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Nextcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nextcloud</span></a> instance (moved that to <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/PostgreSQL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostgreSQL</span></a> ).<br>BUT, this will be read heavy, so maybe not an issue - hard-ish to corrupt a db by reading from it.</p><p>The useage of <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/DublinCore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DublinCore</span></a> at least means (I think) in theory, if I really want, I should be able to migrate to another Dublin Core compatible system if needed. So...good.</p><p>My verdict - I'm going to play with it some more. <br>Install some plugins etc, see what happens.<br>I'm also building up a test set of assets, in case I want to eval something else.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Selfhosted</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/DigitalArchiveManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArchiveManagement</span></a></p>