Scalar OPL

https://scalar.me/
Documentation: http://scalar.usc.edu/works/guide2/index

Description
 Scalar is a web authoring and publishing platform which facilitates scholarly writing
 Scalar is a content management system which enables media-rich scholarship - it encourages users to
integrate photographs, videos, and audio as core components of the writing process, and to annotate
and fully integrate those media
 Scalar also makes it easy to integrate digital objects from institutional repositories, public sources
like Vimeo and YouTube, and scholarly websites running Omeka
 Video: https://scalar.me/anvc/scalar/
Scalar at Harvard
 Not widely used at the moment
 Faculty are beginning to request Scalar + Scalar tutorials, support (HIST, SOC)
Scalar vs Omeka
 Scalar
o Developed at USC (Tara MacPherson, Craig Dietrich, Curtis Fletcher) – 2010
o Local and USC hosted versions are very similar (upload cap of 2MB)
o Not much plugin / theming development as of now
o Flat ontology (media are first order entities)
o Maps neatly onto collaborative / multimedia writing assignments
 Omeka
o RRCHNM and George Mason University (2007)
o Omeka / Omeka S / Omeka.net fragmentation
o Robust plugins and theming
o Item / exhibit paradigm encourages certain uses
o More general purpose (libraries, museums)
 Both
o Good support for metadata
o Supported by scholarly communities, widely used within DH
o Work together well (Scalar can import Omeka items including metadata)
Scalar Overview
 Example sites
o http://scalar.usc.edu/works/pandemonium/recovering-pandemonium?path=index
o http://publications.newberry.org/dig/creating-shakespeare/index
o http://catherinememoir.fas.harvard.edu/
o http://studentpower.fas.harvard.edu
 Book metaphor (table of contents, pages, authors, paths)
 Dashboard
o Users, access levels
 Content types
o Pages (multiple templates)
o Media (multiple types, sources; metadata)
o Relationships
 Annotations
 Comments
 Tags
 Paths
 o Widgets and visualizations
 API and Javascript library