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Hi Chloe! Modifying Item Types (there’s a video about that in the next unit, which I have belatedly added) is really what allows you to customize metadata elements in Omeka Classic. Dublin Core is the foundational metadata set no matter what, but for each item type, you can specify which DC elements you want to be available. WordPress has almost no built-in metadata–what we filled in during class was facilitated by a plugin, and then it couldn’t be published properly because another plugin wasn’t activated to actually publish that metadata. (Essentially, it is a lot more work to create and publish metadata in WordPress than it is in Omeka.)

Our community archives professor ultimately chose WordPress because they did not believe that Omeka had the ability for outside collaboration. However, that is not true–there is a very robust plugin called “Contribution” that allows community members to contribute their own items to an Omeka site.

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