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Omeka: Metadata and Content Organization Guide: Content Organization

Items

Items are the basic units or building blocks of an Omeka site. They can be many different things, like a photograph, a website, a book, an oral history, a spreadsheet, or an artifact.

Each item exists in only a single collection, but you can change collection associations for an item at any time.

Each item should have descriptive metadata.

Individual items may contain multiple files.

Collections

In order to build a collection, you first must have items uploaded and described on your Omeka site. You can organize your collections in whatever way works best for your site.

Viewing Omeka's Managing Collections Tutorial is a good way to begin.

Item Types

Omeka comes with defined item types for the Type field. You can edit these types and also add your own types.

Listing of Omeka's Standard Item Types

 
http://libguides.umw.edu/c.php?g=424335&p=2899051
libguides.umw.edu
crawl=CC-MAIN-2019-26
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application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:X6VMQ4XV3GYCUFEVQOYWSDF75VX3ZWRF
<urn:uuid:08bb3478-9a4e-4eb8-905e-da0e5fd497aa>
2019-06-25T02:18:38Z
34.225.249.89
text/html
sha1:2NC54EEI4M4QNU3XL73TCHQFX7TPKX7F
<urn:uuid:22f62d26-5902-48fa-8add-7f5dca48220e>
http://libguides.umw.edu/c.php?g=424335&p=2899051
response
<urn:uuid:d1e2ef98-ad40-4793-a97a-735d5da94244>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-26
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for June 2019
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-142-32-26.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/