building a photograph gathering website

[Cary Gordon]

Omeka ++

Alternatively, I would build a site in Drupal, or Wordpress would suffice.
One upside of Omeka is that it would give you a relatively low pain entry
into working with a DAMS. It isn't Islandora or Hydra, but it is a DAMS.

Cary

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Steve Cherry <cherrys at cua.edu> wrote:

> Have you considered Omeka with the Contribution plugin?
>
> http://omeka.org/codex/Plugins/Contribution
>
> On 9/23/14 7:48 AM, John Fitzgibbon wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are interested in creating a website that will allow the public to
>> submit historical photographs of our region along with a short
>> description of the photograph. The plan is to make these images
>> available on a searchable website after each image and its accompanying
>> description has been approved by a moderator.
>>
>> Are there ‘out of the box’ tools that I can use? Has any organization
>> attempted something similar?
>>
>> I would appreciate any advice.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> John
>>
>> John Fitzgibbon
>>
>> Executive Librarian
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