As an open source, not-for-profit, warm-and-fuzzy, community service oriented project, we don’t normally like to talk about market rivals or competitive products when we talk about Omeka. Nevertheless, we are often asked to compare Omeka with other products. "Who’s Omeka’s competition?" is a fairly frequent question. Like many FAQs, there is an easy answer and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Museums'
Omeka and Its Peers
September 1st, 2010 · 4 Comments
Tags: Digital Humanities · Libraries · Museums · Omeka
Rethinking Access
March 31st, 2010 · Comments Off
[This week and next I'll be facilitating the discussion of "Learning & Information" at the IMLS UpNext: Future of Museums and Libraries wiki. The following is adapted from the first open thread. Please leave any comments at UpNext to join in the wider discussion!] In addition to the questions posted on the main page for [...]
Tags: Favorites · Libraries · Museums
Things of History, History of Things
March 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment
I have just started listening to an new podcast from the BBC, A History of the World in 100 Objects, written and narrated by Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum. Aside from the obvious reductionism and the occasionally irritating interstitials (lots of ambient chanting and pan flute music), the show is excellent, taking one [...]
Tags: Artifacts · Education · Museums · Podcasts · Tops of All Time
Benchmarking Open Source: Measuring Success by “Low End” Adoption
November 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
In an article about Kuali adoption, the Chronicle of Higher Education quotes Campus Computing Project director, Kenneth C. Green as saying, With due respect to the elites that are at the core of Sakai and also Kuali, the real issue is not the deployment of Kuali or Sakai at MIT, at Michigan, at Indiana, or [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Libraries · Management · Museums · Omeka · Open Source
An Unexpected Honor
October 23rd, 2009 · 4 Comments
Yesterday I received a letter from Google addressed to Robert T. Gunther at Found History. As founder of the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford, where I did my doctoral work, and a major figure in my dissertation, I am very honored to welcome Dr. Gunther to the Found History staff. Despite having [...]
Tags: Biography · Blogs · Google · History of Technology · Humor · Museums
SI and Flickr Commons
October 1st, 2009 · No Comments
Originally published in the journal Archival Science, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries has just released under open access terms a report of the Institution’s experience with Flickr Commons. Written by Martin Kalfatovic, Effie Kapsalis, Katherine Spiess, Anne Van Camp, and Mike Edson, the report recounts what the authors deem a mostly successful experiment with Web 2.0, [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Libraries · Museums · Open Access · Yahoo!
The Conscience Un-Conference: Using Social Media for Good
September 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Inspired in part by THATCamp, the Conscience Un-Conference: Using Social Media for Good is now open for applications. Co-hosted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) and the Center for History and New Media, the Conscience Un-Conference is a free, one-day “un-conference” that intends to bring together interesting and interested people to talk about [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Museums · Public History · Twitter
Briefly Noted: Timetoast; Google Books Settlement; Curators and Wikipedians
April 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
Via Mashable, yet another timeline service: Timetoast. Many readers will have seen this already, but Robert Darton’s February piece in The New York Review of Books is the most readable discussion I have seen of the Google Books settlement. Fresh + New(er), the Powerhouse Museum’s always interesting blog, describes that museum’s recent open house for [...]
Tags: Blogs · Briefly Noted · Google · Libraries · Museums · Open Access · Timelines · Tools · Visualizations
Briefly Noted: Creative Commons Choices; Radical Transparency; Presidential Sex
March 27th, 2009 · No Comments
Creative Commons has released a statistical analysis of the licensing choices of Flickr users. My summary: most people are happy to provide open access, but they don’t want you messing with their stuff. Some commentators lament the fact that so few Flickr users allow derivative works or commercial use of their materials. But for me [...]
Tags: Art · Briefly Noted · Friends · Museums · Open Access
Briefly Noted: Universal Museum APIs; Raw Data Now!; Publish or Perish
March 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Mia Ridge, Lead Web Developer at the Science Museum, London (where I’m a research fellow, incidentally) points to Museums and the machine-processable web, a new wiki “for sharing, discussing, arguing over and hopefully coming to some common agreements on APIs and data schemas for museum collections.” Following closely on that, Tim Berners-Lee calls for “Raw [...]
Tags: Artifacts · Blogs · Briefly Noted · Digital Humanities · Education · Museums · Video

