The UCSC Library has been engaged in a project to develop plugins for Omeka, an open-source application for digital collections and exhibits. This Omeka Curator Dashboard project will produce 15 plugins aimed to enhance curatorial workflows in Omeka, facilitate the import and export of digital objects to and from Omeka, and ease metadata creation and editing within Omeka.

In this presentation, UCSC Librarians explain how the plugins developed as part of the Omeka Curator Dashboard project can be used to move content into Omeka from external systems or applciaitons or push digital objects from Omeka into preservation repositories.

Slides accompanying the authors' presentation at the Digital Library Federation Forum in 2015.  The presentation was part of the Snapshots series on process.

Presentation abstract:  At UC Santa Cruz (UCSC), the Digital Initiatives team has been engaged in digitizing special collections materials for over a decade and is just now navigating the thorny process of making such services available for the entire campus. With both political and technical challenges in mind, we seek to ask: how can we leverage skills and expertise developed on our own collections in response to faculty projects and campus wide initiatives? In other words, how can we scale and support the kinds of digitization, OCR processing, hosting, and digital object preservation work we have done internally for faculty?