Unit 12: Omeka Continued

This week, we continued working with Omeka.  Plugins were added such as the OAI Harvester and Comments.  The idea of downloading a pre-installed VM versus building one’s own could be advantageous as it is will allow one more time to concentrate on the collection rather that spending that time on installing the VM.  Installing a VM is a time consuming process.  However, I did realize that after having installed a VM several times this semester the process became easier and took less time.  Installing a new VM each time also creates the problem for more errors as certain steps could be missed.  On the other hand, there are certain elements in the VM installation process that are beneficial to know such as the ability to: test for connectivity, check/change IP addresses if necessary, edit the host file.  By building a VM from scratch, the opportunity to learn about how a repository is structured and modified can be important if troubleshooting is required.  As my computer skills increase with the DigIn courses I appreciate more the behind the scenes components involved in building a repository from scratch.