WikiEducator:Technology notes

This is where I put notes about idle thoughts, like considerations for selecting software and evaluations of specific technologies:

• Digital Asset Management systems for storing and reusing your digital artefacts/assets (images, audio, video, and other data).
  • Omeka - which describes itself as "a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Its 'five-minute setup' makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog" - we've tried it now, and have decided that though it's simple and "user friendly", that perceived simplicity is its weakness as it's due to actual simplicity: it's an overly basic solution to what is usually a more complex problem - i.e. it's not sufficiently rich or malleable enough to meet most institutional requirements.
• Communication/Collaboration tools
  • Open Source Slack alternatives - aggregate multiple communications channels into one stream, with search and document storage
    • Rocket.Chat - we've settled on this and are currently trialling it (it's great!) at https://chat.oeru.org
    • Mattermost - this was trialled (https://chatm.oeru.org) and while good, was deemed not-quite-the-equal of Rocket.chat
    • Zulip - also trialled (https://chatz.oeru.org) and despite some nice features, deemed less polished than Rocket.chat