Yes, I was thinking there of a flat XML file, though I wish that I had
some more in-depth knowledge of some varieties of XML exports. I'm
thinking here of being able to take a WordPress or a Drupal export and
pull in into Omeka for an archive.
And point taken about EAD. Ultimately, I'm realizing that when I say
'generalized' I'm also counting on an administrator/curator to do some
complex work configuring each import. That is, have a parser that'll
push data to an interface that'll let the admin/curator select options
for how to import. So the parser would be the general part, and the
metadata geek setting up the config options for the import would do the
heavy lifting of making it all work.
Basically, I see Omeka as being in a great spot to fundamentally
distinguish itself from WordPress and Drupal. If you need to do
_curation_ of knowledge, Omeka looks to become the right choice. The
various pushes around importers is what got me started on this line of
thinking. The plugins for importing via various standards are falling
into place, but Jim's Zotero import really blew open the doors, I think,
to look at Omeka as a tool for curating (by which I mean
anti-info-entropy -- I'm trying to figure that out for a blog post) the
social knowledge-sharing going on on the web.
Yeah, that's why I'm succumbing to scope-creep on the FeedImporter. And
why I'm excited about the idea of a FlickrImporter. And, ultimately, an
RDFImporter. We can't let Drupal have all the fun!
There are lots of steps to get there, and working out XSLT for
individual projects is, I think, the most useful step for most cases
right now. I'd like to learn from the needs of those cases to aim toward
what Omeka admins really do with those imported Items and how they
curate them -- what questions they ask and how they organize things. I
think a lot of exciting stuff will come out of that.
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