#About Curatescape

Curatescape is the set of tools used in the Mobile Historical initiative, including a set of themes and plugins for the Omeka CMS, and native client applications for Android and iOS devices.

The Mobile Historical initiative is an NEH-funded project aiming to develop best practices for curating physical landscapes and location-based digital collections using low-cost and open-source publishing tools.

For more information, visit curatescape.org or view the GitHub project wiki.

#Server-side Setup

Curatescape is a suite of themes and plugins for the Omeka content management system. To get started, install Omeka on the server of your choice.

1. Install Omeka
   • Download Omeka (current supported version: 1.5.3)
   • Installation instructions (omeka.org)
   • Server requirements
2. Curatescape themes
   • Curatescape: repo | download
   • MobileHistorical (for use only with Omeka 1.5.x; requires Geolocation_fork plugin): repo | download
3. Curatescape plugins
   • TourBuilder: repo | download
   • MobileJSON: repo | download
   • ImageTree: repo | download
   • Geolocation_fork (for use only with Omeka 1.5.x and Mobile Historical theme only): repo | download
   • SendToAdminHeader: repo | download
4. CHNM plugins
   • Geolocation: instructions | repo | download v. 1.2 (for Omeka 1.5.3 and Curatescape theme only)

Note that you can quickly grab one of the colocated Omeka+Curatescape server-side packages by cloning this repo or by using a shell command like:

wget https://github.com/CPHDH/Curatescape/blob/master/Curatescape_and_Omeka1.5.3.zip 

#Native client apps

Note that while the server-side components of Curatescape are open source and freely available, the native client applications are proprietary and require a licensee fee. For more information about licensing, visit curatescape.org.

#Other documentation Please visit the Curatescape project wiki for additional information regarding configuration, content framework and more.