Content Management
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Content Management Systems
Major Questions
- Which open-source CMS is right for your project?
Findings
http://www.creatingholyoke.org used omeka as a content management system. We like it because it does not require a lot of back end knowledge once its installed. We were able to easily train our interns and volunteers to enter data. (Kate Thibodeau)
Resources
- Archivist Toolkit open-source archival data management system
- Wordpress, open-source blogging software
- Joomla, open-source content management software
- Scholarpress plugins for Wordpress developed for course websites
- Zotero research, bibliographic, and collaborative tool for Firefox
- Omeka publish collections, research, exhibits online
- Drupal best for managing a large site with many different types of content pieces.
- MODx free, open source CMS/CMF built on PHP and MySQL
- Fedora and D-Space for managing collections and catalogs
- eXist free, open source native XML database - ideal for projects with lots of semi-structured text, where text is already XML or where you need to annotate text using scholarly markup like (e.g. TEI)
