(NB: descriptions come from About pages or similar text)
Omeka.net Sites
Guilford Keeping Society Archives https://gks.omeka.net/ This site presents some of the intellectual resources maintained by the Guilford Keeping Society (GKS). The GKS is dedicated to preserving the history of Guilford, Connecticut and to celebrating the many cultural influences that have shaped this town since 1639.
Ozarks Afro-American Heritage Museum Online https://oaahm.omeka.net/ African American history is a little discussed subject in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas. In 2004, Fr. Moses Berry founded a small storefront museum in Ash Grove, MO to collect artifacts and photographs that illustrate and illuminate the forgotten history of this region. In 2013, the museum has migrated to a digital space both because of rising financial costs related to maintaining the physical space and to share this history with a far wider audience.
Farm and Ranch http://farmandranch.omeka.net/ The purpose of this website is to showcase late 18th century through early 20th century historic farm and ranch complexes located in Bexar and adjacent counties in Texas. The goal is to celebrate and to promote conservation and preservation of historic properties and to provide inspiration and examples for others looking to do the same with their properties.
Skokie Lagoons https://skokielagoons.omeka.net/exhibits/show/exhibit/home This exhibit explores how workers from the Civilian Conservation Corps constructed a new nature, turning marshland into the Skokie Lagoons. Click through to uncover what the Skokie Marsh was like before the lagoons, why and how the lagoons were created, how the area has changed over the last 80 years, and what this tells us about the past.
History of Agnes Scott College. http://agnesscott.omeka.net/ The history of Agnes Scott College has been told several times since the foundation of the college in 1889, but never from the perspective of its students. This project, first undertaken in spring 2017 by the students and faculty of the History Department and by the librarians and archivists of McCain Library, aims to change that.
Omeka Sites
Cork LGBT Archive http://corklgbtarchive.com/ The Cork LGBT Archive aims to preserve, digitise, share and display information in relation to the history of the LGBT communities in Cork, Ireland.
Maynard Historical Society (Massachusetts) http://collection.maynardhistory.org/ Welcome to the online archives of the Maynard Historical Society in Maynard, Massachusetts. Our online archive represents a fraction of the documents, photographs, artifacts and memorabilia that the Society has in storage and we are continuously working to catalog and make our collection available here for all to enjoy. Please read the “About” page for additional information on this project or the “Tips” page for ways to find and discover historical information.
Stradbroke Village Archive http://www.stradbrokearchive.org.uk/ The archive is curated and preserved by the Stradbroke Archive & Record Association.
Cork County Library Digital Studies Local Library http://www.corklocalstudies.ie/ Our definition of local studies encompasses all aspects of life in County Cork, past and present. Our collection of books, journals, newspapers and other resources reflects that broad definition.
Project DAPS http://projectdaps.org/ “Project DAPS” is a unique online exhibition & searchable database of archival materials related to the desegregation of Arlington Public Schools. Project DAPS is culled from the holdings of the Arlington Public Library’s Community Archives in the Center for Local History.
Floyd County History Collection http://history.fclib.org/ The Floyd County History Collection is a project of the Floyd County Public Library to collect and digitize photographs, oral histories, moving images, sounds, and documents that pertain to the history of Floyd County, Kentucky.
Collection Only Sites
West Hartford History Online https://history.westhartfordlibrary.org/ Our local history collections include historical material relating to the town of West Hartford, such as town reports, local atlases, Greater Hartford city directories from 1887-1991, neighborhood and institutional histories, local high school yearbooks, historic maps, postcards, photographs, local newspapers and books by and about Noah Webster.
Farms to Freeways (Sydney, Australia) http://omeka.uws.edu.au/farmstofreeways/ This research project, titled Western Sydney Women’s Oral History Project ‘From farms to freeways: Women’s memories of Western Sydney’, sought to analyse the experiences of women who had lived in the Blacktown and Penrith areas since the early 1950s, including their responses to social changes brought about by rapid suburbanisation in the Western Sydney region in the post-war period.
St Louis Punk Archive http://stlpunkarchive.omeka.net The purpose of this site is to preserve and make available for both researchers and fans the artifacts of the St. Louis punk scene.
Queer Omaha Archives http://queeromahaarchives.omeka.net/ The Queer Omaha Archives preserves Omaha’s LGBTQIA+ history as part of the UNO Libraries’ Archives & Special Collections. Historical materials documenting Omaha’s diverse LGBTQIA+ communities are collected and made available to the public by archivists and librarians to more widely share Omaha’s stories.
Tuscaloosa Area Virtual Museum https://tavm.omeka.net This digital collection focuses on historic photographs of the Tuscaloosa area including the cities of Tuscaloosa and Northport as well as the surrounding areas. Also included are interviews with leaders and residents of the area.
Historic Plaques of Ontario https://ontarioplaques.omeka.net/ Since the 1950s, the Ontario government has installed blue & gold historic plaques around the province, of which there are now over 1,200. The Canadian government and Heritage Toronto (City of Toronto) have installed hundreds more, featuring wonderful information about “what happened here.” In the past few years of travelling around the province, I’ve amassed a significant collection of plaque snapshots. This site is a way of keeping track of things I’ve seen, and sharing what I’ve learned about Ontario.
Aspirational Sites (Using Neatline, Contribution, Curatescape, etc)
DC Digital Museum http://www.wdchumanities.org/dcdm/ Since its founding 34 years ago, the Humanities Council of Washington, DC has acquired a substantial collection of documentary films, oral histories, and other materials of great cultural and historic significance to the District of Columbia. Many of the materials are grantee products that can be difficult or even impossible to find elsewhere [Geolocation; contribution]
Unpacking Manuel’s Tavern http://unpackingmanuels.com/ Unpacking Manuel’s Tavern preserves the organic archive of Atlanta’s political left that has been inscribed on the walls of this local restaurant and bar over the past half century. [Neatline]
Portland’s Historical Markers http://www.markers.portlandculturalhistory.org/ To map, describe, and analyze the historical markers in the City of Portland. [Neatline]
Intemperance Archive. http://intemperance.org/ Currently focused on mapping Prohibition raids in New Orleans, the goal of this project is to examine the cultural history of drinking cultures in the hemispheric South. [geolocation, custom design]
Ice Age Floods explorer http://floodexplorer.org/ Ice Age Floods Explorer is a web and mobile platform for telling stories of the Missoula Floods and is an ongoing endeavor focusing on student research. Ice Age Floods Explorer is a project of the Public History program and Department of Geology at Eastern Washington University. [Curatescape]
Red Hook Water Stories https://redhookwaterstories.org/ Welcome to 400+ years of Red Hook! Inclusion is a theme in this e-museum that memorializes forgotten, overlooked and erased histories. It’s a resource for locals, tourists, history buffs, urban-planners, educators, students, flaneurs. [Curatescape]
The Civil War in St. Augustine http://sacivilwararchive.com/about “The Civil War In St. Augustine” is a repository for manuscript letters, journals, reports and other materials created by Union soldiers, Confederate soldiers, and civilians that wrote about the conflict and key events in St. Augustine, FL. [Neatline]
The Carl Albert Center’s Local Digital History Lab both preserves history and highlights important policy issues in Oklahoma. The first series of labs focus on the intersection between environment, extreme weather, and public policy. https://water.cacexplore.org/
Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education (Bryn Mawr College history) http://greenfield.brynmawr.edu/exhibits The exhibits presented on this page represent the different areas of research in the history of women’s education so far conducted by The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education.
Morningside Heights Digital History https://mhdh.library.columbia.edu/ collaborative project examining the history of a specific neighborhood built by (university) librarians as a practicum in digital history/digital humanities (see also the blog of the librarians who built the site: https://devlib.library.columbia.edu/ )