Digital humanities & text mining · Corporation for Digital Scholarship
Omeka
Open-source web publishing platform for digital collections and exhibits, free to self-host or available as a paid hosted service.
Omeka is a web publishing system purpose-built for cultural heritage and digital humanities collections, letting institutions and researchers catalog items with Dublin Core metadata, build public online exhibits, and manage multi-site collections. It exists as two open-source, free-to-self-host versions, Omeka Classic (single-site) and Omeka S (multi-site, linked-data-oriented), maintained by the nonprofit Corporation for Digital Scholarship, plus Omeka.net, a paid hosted service for users who don't want to run their own server. Plugin and theme ecosystems extend both versions for exhibits, mapping, and collection import/export. It is widely used by museums, libraries, archives and academic digital-humanities projects as a lighter-weight alternative to full digital-asset-management systems.
At a glance
| Vendor | Corporation for Digital Scholarship |
|---|---|
| Pricing model | Free tier + paid plans |
| Free tier | Yes |
| Deployment | Cloud, Self-hosted |
| Open source | Yes (GPL-3.0) |
| Best for | Museums, libraries and archives publishing digital collections and exhibits without a full DAM system. |
Pricing
Omeka Classic/S are free to self-host; Omeka.net hosted plans are paid annual subscriptions.
| Plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Plus (Omeka.net) | $35/year | excl. taxes; 2GB storage, 2 sites |
| Silver (Omeka.net) | $75/year | excl. taxes; 5GB storage, 5 sites |
| Gold (Omeka.net) | $350/year | excl. taxes; 10GB storage, 10 sites |
| Platinum (Omeka.net) | $1000/year | excl. taxes; 50GB storage, unlimited sites |
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.
Features
- Dublin Core item cataloging
- Public exhibit-building tools
- Multi-site collection management (Omeka S)
- Plugin and theme ecosystem
- Free self-hosted versions (Classic, S)
- Paid hosted service (Omeka.net)
- Linked-data support (Omeka S)
Integrations
Profile last reviewed September 21, 2026