Cultivating Place-Based Information with Omeka

Explore the C-Dash pilot installation.

For an illustrated tour of our process, visit the C-Dash Slideshow.

The Cambridge Historical Commission collects documents about each building in the city. The collection now spans ten file cabinets filled with folders, each of which is labeled with a street address (most of the time) or the name of a place. The file drawers are roughly partitioned to districts, with the folders being alphabetized by street-name. The C-Dash project has digitized each of the documents and is now in the process of creating a map-based web site to make these available to the public.

We hope that the tools and procedures we are developing will be useful for other local historical commissions. Visit our C-DASH project on GitHub to download the a working Omeka development environment with the custom modules and themes to play with C-DASH on your own computer.