I’m pleased to announce that a new version of Omeka was released yesterday. This version of our web publishing system features a very flexible data model that will make data migration easy in the future, improves the exhibit builder, adds a plugin for easily creating pages within your site and firms up of the [...]
The Omeka team should be encouraged. At three weeks since we released the public beta, we’re had over 500 downloads and had a flurry of interest at conferences including WebWise & code4lib. We’re in a good position to continue building an active developer community that augments Omeka’s core. Here are three exciting examples:
1) [...]
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
We made it to episode two! And check out that Omeka swag! Omeka was featured in the most-recent episode of THAT Podcast, including interviews with CHNM Managing Director, Tom Scheinfeldt and Director of Public Projects, Sharon Leon. The second half of the episode is a screencast taking you through the process of [...]
On Monday I’ll be traveling out to Portland, Oregon for the week with some fellow CHNM‘ers to present Omeka! Trevor Owens will also be giving a Zotero presentation and pre-conference workshop. It will be a great opportunity to meet some developers face-to-face who I’ve only worked with via email so far. Time permitting, I may blog about while [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
As pointed out by Sheila Brennan, the Brooklyn Museum has released a Facebook application called ArtShare to display their art collection using the Developer Platform. You can add pieces of their collection that rotate on your Facebook profile page, and share them with your friends.
The WPBook plugin I wrote for Wordpress that embeds your [...]
We released RC3 of Omeka today, which includes revisions to the core code-base and a prepackaged contribution plugin. The next release client is coming out in time for the holidays, and will be not only significantly faster, but include several new plugins. Be sure to subscribe to our blog, add us on twitter. [...]
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 [...]