I’d love to learn about how people are customizing their Omeka sites with a session along the lines of this one (“Making Content Shine with Omeka”) led by Amanda French at THATCamp Philly 2011.  On a broad level, I’d like to learn how people are re-purposing the organizational categories that Omeka comes out of the box with, such as “items,” “collections,” and “exhibits,” and what theoretical outlooks are informing the decision to say, change “exhibits” into “lesson plans.”  On a technical level, I’d like to see how people are customizing the “show items” php file to re-name and re-order some of the Dublin Core Fields.

This may be something that can be discussed as part of the session proposed by Jean Bauer, especially if Omeka is one of the platforms that people are interested in using to visualize data. Or a stand-alone session for people who are already using Omeka with the Neatline plugin with a  focus on how to best provide access through metadata and geo-location information that will be useful to scholars, students, librarians, other audiences who will be viewing, searching, and using the content created/visualized/posted in Omeka.

What research services can the Digital Humanist expect from libraries, archives, and museums?  Accessing existing scholarly content and making new digital forms available are well within the realm of expectations.  But what do LAMS already do, and what services would be even more useful?