ArchivesSpace VS Omeka

Compare ArchivesSpace vs Omeka and see what are their differences.

ArchivesSpace

The ArchivesSpace archives management tool (by archivesspace)
Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP) Archivesspace Archives Libraries cultural-heritage HacktoberFest Ruby JavaScript Xslt Marc21 Ead Jruby
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Omeka

A flexible web publishing platform for the display of library, museum and scholarly collections, archives and exhibitions. (by omeka)
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ArchivesSpace

Posts with mentions or reviews of ArchivesSpace. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-20.

Omeka

Posts with mentions or reviews of Omeka. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-26.
  • Online Research Tools for Students
    1 project | /r/SharkAdvice | 15 May 2023
    Omeka
  • Indexing / filtering lots of images and their metadata
    2 projects | /r/opensource | 26 Jan 2023
    Omeka (https://omeka.org/) is OSS and has a REST API. Usually used by museums/libraries, but primary function is to upload and describe media files.
  • Ask HN: What not-profit-seeking project are you tinkering with this week?
    37 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Oct 2022
    Adding new features to listmonk (mailing list / newsletter manager), preparing for its next release.

    https://github.com/knadh/listmonk

    Setting up and playing around with Omeka, a brilliant document publishing system, to help publish an archive of digitised physical books and documents.

    https://omeka.org

  • How are historians recording and preserving the COVID-19 pandemic?
    1 project | /r/AskHistorians | 28 Aug 2021
    If you Google "COVID-19 digital archive" you can also find a range of projects with different focuses. A benefit of technology is that now many organizations can create their own Omeka site and build a collection to document events in real time. However, I hope the post above demonstrates that while anyone can, any historian utilizing these various resources need to consider the practices undertaken to gather digital archives. We would never enter a physical archive and look at paper documents without questioning why those survive, what's missing, and thinking about voices specifically left out. A digital collection is the same, however they present an abundance of sources that can distract or distort- approaching the surviving records of the Salem Witch Trials is different from approaching a collection of 40,000 personal accounts. What voices might not volunteer a personal account to a website if it requires identifying information? How many images of people in masks at the grocery store do we need to deliberately save? These are not substantially different questions from what past historians and archivists thought about, but technology does reframe discussion. We'll see how many of these projects were developed with sustainability in mind.
  • Seeking recommendation for building an art collection archive
    1 project | /r/Archivists | 6 Aug 2021
    Yes to this and other free, open source solutions such as Omeka.
  • Wordpress plugin to create a easy to manage historical document gallary/database
    1 project | /r/Wordpress | 9 Jun 2021
    I have not tried this yet but: https://wordpress.org/plugins/diviner-archive/ Or you might look into a non-Wordpress solution like Omeka https://omeka.org/
  • What to do with a large newspaper text archive
    1 project | /r/Journalism | 25 May 2021
    There are some great visual archives online that might serve as inspiration. Free tools to create them include Collection Builder, Omeka, and some other free, open source repository software. Most of their sites have links to projects that people have built using their tool, and I find them super inspiring to scroll through and get ideas for projects like yours.
  • best theme for old postcards collection browsing
    1 project | /r/WordPressThemes | 24 May 2021
    A popular alternative is Omeka, which can't directly be used with WordPress but does have some workarounds to effectively show the digital collection in a frame. Search the Omeka forum for more info.
  • Solutions for collections accessible on the cloud?
    2 projects | /r/Archivists | 8 Feb 2021
    Omeka (https://omeka.org/)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ArchivesSpace and Omeka you can also consider the following projects:

Access to Memory (AtoM) - Open-source, web application for archival description and public access.

Joomla! - Home of the Joomla! Content Management System

ArchivesSpace vs Access to Memory (AtoM) Omeka vs Joomla!