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Welcome

Digital History Hub is a place to:

  • Showcase your collection of photos, artifacts and more.
  • Publish oral history recordings, videos and digitized documents.
  • Create virtual exhibits.
  • Encourage community collaboration by inviting users to tag items, contribute content and crowdsource transcriptions.
Florida Memory
JPL Presents

Digital History Hub is:

  • Ideal for archives, museums, historical societies and libraries.
  • Powered by the popular, open-source Omeka system.
  • Easy to use on your own, or with help from us.
  • Hosted in Canada.

Watch a short video about Digital History Hub:

Examples

Check out these sites for ideas for your own Omeka site.

Florida Memory

Photos, documents and audio and video recordings from the Florida state archives.

The War of 1812

Digitized materials in the Lilly Library at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre Archives

Featuring selected designs from Winnipeg-based and award-winning designer Brian Perchaluk.

JPL Presents

Exhibits from the Jewish Public Library of Montreal.

Audubon's Birds of America

An illustrated inventory of the American Antiquarian Society.

Cornish Memory

Photos, films, and audio recordings of the stories of Cornwall's rich history from Victorian times to the present day.

Many more sites are listed at http://omeka.org/codex/Sites_Using_Omeka.

Features

Digital History Hub uses Omeka, a popular, open-source web application used around the world to manage and search cultural collections. It's easy to use, with a wide range of features built-in and available as add-ons.

Digital History Hub is fully hosted and supported, so there's nothing for you to install or configure. We'll create an Omeka site just for you, and you can get started creating collections and exhibits!

Features for Visitors:

  • Browse and search items individually, or in collections or virtual exhibits.
  • Enlarge images and watch streaming audio and video within the site.
  • View items on a timeline or map.
  • Tag items on social media and provide comments and feedback.
  • Works just as well on mobile devices as the desktop.

Features for Administrators:

  • Easy interface for data entry, creating collections and exhibits, and more.
  • Describe resources with Dublin Core metadata and controlled vocabularies.
  • Choice of different themes (colours, fonts, layout, design).
  • Create unlimited collections of items, and assemble them into virtual exhibits with narrative text.
  • Crowd-source information from visitors to help add information to your collections.
  • Do it all yourself or contract with us for design and implementation assistance.

More information about Omeka is available at http://omeka.org including extensive documentation and a video tour to help you get started.

Pricing

Starter Subscription

$99 / month or $999 / year
25 GB storage
1 Omeka site
Support is available for purchase if needed

Growth Subscription

$199 / month or $1,999 / year
75 GB storage
Unlimited Omeka sites
Half an hour of email or phone support per month is included

Both subscriptions include:

  • Free Omeka site setup.
  • Unlimited items, collections and virtual exhibits, within available storage.
  • Choice of all themes available with current version of Omeka, plus themes developed specifically for Digital History Hub.
  • Choice of plug-ins specially selected for use at Digital History Hub.
  • 50 GB bandwidth (traffic to your site) per month.
  • 24/7 site monitoring, site security, replication and backup.
  • Your site hosted at YourName.DigitalHistoryHub.com (e.g. abc.digitalhistoryhub.com).

Add-ons

Add any of these to your subscription:

  • Custom domain name (e.g. history.yourorganization.com) and SSL certificate.
  • Personalized, live, online training session, recorded for later review.
  • Help from us to build your site, and additional support as needed.
  • Additional storage space.
  • Custom theme development.

Get Started Today!

Contact us to get started with Digital History Hub.

Tell us a bit about who you are and what sort of digital history collections you'd like to put online, and we'll help you select a subscription and add-ons.

Q & A

Is my site shared with others or just for me?

Your site is your own. Although all sites are hosted at digitalhistoryhub.com, each site is separate from all others and will showcase only your collections.

Can I cancel my subscription?

Yes, you can cancel anytime, though unfortunately, we cannot provide a refund of any pre-paid amounts.

How can I pay for my subscription?

For monthly subscriptions, we require a credit card, which will be automatically charged each month. For annual subscriptions, we accept credit cards, cheques, and Electronic Funds Transfers to our bank.

How can I get help or training?

Just email us at info@andornot.com or call us at 1-866-266-2525. We're available by phone and email Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm Pacific Time, though we monitor sites 24/7 and will act after hours if there is an emergency.

How secure is the data I upload?

Your Omeka site will be hosted on one of our servers located in Vancouver, which we manage ourselves (as opposed to servers located on an anonymous "cloud" platform). Physical access to our facility is restricted to only our staff, and our infrastructure is protected by modern firewalls and other security technologies.

Is my data backed up?

Absolutely! Your site is backed up both within our facility and offsite. Multiple, redundant levels of backup are present, with daily, weekly and monthly versioning. Just ask if you'd like more detail.