Found History readers may be interested to know that Omeka version 0.9.1 has just been released. This is our first release since the initial public launch on February 20, 2008. It fixes more than 20 bugs, and our development team recommends that all users upgrade their existing Omeka installations. The API hasn’t changed since the […]
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Omeka 0.9.1
April 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Digital Humanities · Omeka · Tools
Twitter as a tool for outreach
March 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments
In an earlier post I wrote about the early buzz around Omeka, both in the forums and among education, museum, public history, and library bloggers. One thing I didn’t mention—and frankly did not expect—was the buzz about Omeka on Twitter, the popular SMS-centered microblogging, won’t-get-it-till-you’ve-used-it social networking platform.
Twitter has been getting a lot of […]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Omeka · Public History · Tools
THATPodcast Episode 2: Introducing Omeka
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Jeremy and Dave are at it again. This time on THATPodcast they give us a video introduction to Omeka. Sticking with their two-segment format, the first half of the show features a discussion (in part by me) of the aims and values that underlie Omeka. The second half features a very helpful […]
Tags: Audio · Digital Humanities · Omeka · Tools · Video
Omeka Forums are Buzzing
February 24th, 2008 · No Comments
It has been only three or four days since we released Omeka to the wild, and already we’re seeing some amazing interest. As of this posting, Omeka 0.9.0 has been downloaded more than 200 times, has been blogged by at least 50 authors, and for a brief time made the del.icio.us homepage “hotlist.” Most exciting […]
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Omeka for All
February 20th, 2008 · No Comments
As Steve Brier, Josh Brown, and Mike O’Malley pointed out in Episode 2 of History Conversations, CHNM’s late founder, Roy Rosenzweig firmly believed that it wasn’t enough for the historian interested in popular memory simply to be an analyst of popular historymaking. He or she also had to be an active practitioner of public […]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Museums · Omeka · Public History · Roy
