I’m back from an exciting weekend at THATCamp, working through with a wide range of digital humanists. Among us there was shared excitement and pleasure to engage in the type of informal dialogue that a BarCamp-style unconference like THATCamp affords. And given the interest in it, we’ll be doing THATCamp again next year [...]
There’s a small typo in this year’s Code4Lib schedule – Omeka is the digital archive and exhibit-building software developed by the Center for History and New Media, not Omedka as the program states. Hopefully anyone at the conference who Googles “omedka” will find this, and visit our official website, http://omeka.org
This morning we released the first public version of Omeka, the web publishing system for digital collections that I’ve been lucky to be a developer of at the Center for History and New Media since last May. And we’ve come a long way. I’ve seen the code change dramatically, increase significantly in speed, [...]
It’s hard to keep on top of the latest technologies and tools for digital humanists, and knowing how to use those tools effectively is an entirely different matter. The Humanities and Technology Podcast, fondly known as THAT Podcast by Jeremy Boggs and myself is a new endeavor to meet those needs. Offering both [...]
On Friday the Omeka team hit a new milestone – the fourth release candidate of our web publishing software for collections. This release includes several noteworthy changes, that in the long run are going to make a huge difference to users installing the software:
Greater Database Flexibility
Thanks to the hard work of Kris Kelly, we’ve [...]
Including his most-recent entry entitled “Osama bin Laden For Kids,” Trevor Owens’ new blog FirstPast explores examples of history and “true stories” in children’s literature. Trevor has some great observations on representation in children’s biographies – and although analyzing a different medium than myself, his work speaks to many of the educational dilemmas I’ve [...]
At the Center for History and New Media I’ve had the opportunity to be on the web development team for Omeka, a “simple and flexible system for organizations, cultural institutions, and individuals to manage and publish items, collections, and exhibits on the web.” Omeka is a free and open source web publishing platform that [...]
I’d like to welcome everyone who recently began aggregating my feed, and encourage those who read my site to subscribe to Finding America to have my entries delivered directly to you. Another recent change is that users can now leave comments without logging in. These were suggestions made in an blog entry by [...]