February 2018 Update: There is now a plugin for Omeka that allows users to export to CSV via the interface. The Omeka digital collections platform features many easy to use plugins to facilitate editing and sharing metadata. Oddly, there isn't a built in option or even a plugin available yet that allows a user to export the metadata directly to a spreadsheet. This post lists a step by step method to do this using a PHP script written by an Omeka developer. Note: This script will export all items that have been marked Public. It will also export all of the elements, even if they are empty. 1. Clone or download OmekaApiToCsv . This is a version of the original script, but has the addition of a pipe delimiter for multivalued elements. 2. Upload and extract this same set of scripts to the same web server as the Omeka installation. Folder of the OmekaApiToCsv scripts within the rest of the Omeka files 3. Open the php file within the OmekaApi...
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