Research:Away from Omeka-S and Zotero

Why we use MediaWiki only (and not Omeka-S or Zotero)

At the beginning of the project we evaluated tools such as Omeka-S and Zotero. These are excellent applications for publishing digital collections and managing bibliographic references. However, our needs go beyond storing documents or citations. We are building an integrated research environment where historical objects, people, organizations, places, sources, and narrative chapters are all connected in one coherent structure. MediaWiki allows us to design this structure flexibly and to model our domain exactly as we need it, while keeping full control over data, workflows, and long-term maintenance. Instead of combining several separate systems, we use one unified platform that supports documentation, collaboration, structured data, and publication together. This keeps the system simpler, more sustainable, and better adapted to our specific research goals.