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 'Omeka'
Omeka and Its Peers
September 1st, 2010 · 4 Comments
Tags: Digital Humanities · Libraries · Museums · Omeka
Open Source Community and the Omeka Controlled Vocabulary Plugin
April 27th, 2010 · No Comments
I love open source. Why? Here’s a fairly representative example. Following Patrick Murray-John’s excellent post and bootstrapping of a new AjaxCreate plugin for Omeka, I speculated on the Omeka Dev List about whether some related technologies and methods could be used to power a plugin to handle controlled vocabularies and authority lists, something Omeka currently [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Omeka · Open Source
Gearing up for NCPH
January 27th, 2010 · No Comments
The annual meeting of the National Council on Public History (NCPH) is only six weeks away, and CHNM will be there in force. On Thursday, March 11, we will be running a working group to help “Jump Start Your Digital Project in Public History.” On Saturday, March 13, we will be running a special workshop [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Omeka · Public History
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
UVA Scholars’ Lab Working to Connect Omeka and Fedora
October 9th, 2009 · No Comments
The Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia is working on a new plugin for Omeka that would connect an Omeka frontend to a Fedora repository backend. An early version of the code can be downloaded from the Omeka SVN repository. Any questions or comments on the plugin should be directed to the Omeka Dev [...]
Tags: Omeka · Open Source
New Omeka Support Resources
February 24th, 2009 · No Comments
Team Omeka has been hard at work. Not only are we preparing for a 1.0 alpha release in early March, we have also been working with the Omeka community to improve support for the steadily growing numbers of institutions and individuals using Omeka to display their collections and build exhibitions in rich narrative and visual [...]
Tags: Omeka · Open Source
Briefly Noted for February 10, 2009
February 10th, 2009 · No Comments
Jessica Pritchard of the American Historical Association blog reports on a panel at last month’s annual meeting that asked what it takes to be a public historian. Entitled “Perspectives on Public History: What Knowledge, Skills, and Experiences are Essential for the Public History Professional?” the panel was chaired by George Mason’s own Spencer Crew. Going [...]
Tags: Briefly Noted · Gaming · History of Technology · Libraries · Mozilla · Omeka · Podcasts · Public History
New in Omeka: 0.10 stable, lots of plugins
December 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Omeka 0.10 stable was released today, patching a few holes in our recent beta release and adding a few new features. Also available are some cool new plugins. Geolocation lets you locate and display your collections on an embedded Google Map. MyOmeka lets your visitors favorite, tag, and save items from your collection on their [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Omeka
Omeka Wins MATC Award
December 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I’m very happy to report that Omeka was honored with a $50,000 Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration today. Congrats to the entire Omeka team and thanks to all the users who supported our nomination! A full press release is available from the Mason newsroom.
Tags: Omeka · Open Source
Omeka. Serious Web Publishing
November 11th, 2008 · No Comments
Today at CHNM we’re celebrating the general release of Omeka 0.10b and the relaunch of a redesigned Omeka.org. We also have a new tag line—”Omeka. Serious web publishing”—to reflect both Omeka’s power and its usefulness for serious scholarship, library practice, and museum work. Omeka 0.10b features a fully reworked unqualified Dublin Core metadata schema and [...]
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