Tips for Omeka Items

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If you don’t understand a field or don’t think it applies, it’s okay to leave it blank. To read more about how capital-A archivists use these fields, this page has nice short descriptions of what each field is meant for.

Copyright:

  • “All Rights Reserved” if you want to totally retain copyright: no one can use what you posted without your permission.
  • The Creative Commons Chooser helps you pick a CC license if you want to let people use your work in new projects, memes, etc., but want to place some restrictions on this use (e.g. users must attribute you, can’t make money off of your work, or needs to use a CC license on whatever they make that uses your work). Some specific CC licenses you might use:
  • CC BY (must attribute you)
  • CC SA (anything they make with it must also have a CC license, i.e. they must also allow reuse)
  • CC NC (can’t make money off of whatever they make)
  • If you want a combination of these things, just string them along like this: CC BY SA

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