Software and Tools for Researchers: Content Management Systems

This LibGuide brings together, in one place, software and tools for researchers for digitisation projects and research data management.

Content Management Systems

Drupal
"Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications."
LoCloud
A new, slick tool that lets you easily set-up your own digital library, museum or archive in the cloud. Automatically promotes collections via well known channels like Europeana.
Omeka
"Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions." Omeka also offers a fee-based hosted version at omeka.net
Scalar
"Authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required."
WordPress
"WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog."

Drupal

Drupal
"Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications."

Omeka

OMEKA S is a next-generation web publishing platform for institutions interested in connecting digital cultural heritage collections with other resources online.

OMEKA CLASSIC for individual projects and educators is a web publishing platform for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits.

See Shawn Day's course material and tutorial on OMEKA at Digital Nomad