Today, Omeka.net adds a plugin that facilitate the integration with the Local Contexts project. Local Contexts Labels allow Indigenous communities and local organizations to clearly articulate the conditions for sharing, use, and future eng…
We are excited to announce the addition of a new plugin–OHMS Embed! The OHMS Embed plugin brings rich oral history tools to Omeka.net. Users can now add Oral History Metadata Synchonizer objects to their Omeka items. The player can then be
We are excited to announce the addition of a new plugin–Resource Metadata! The Resource Meta plugin allows installation users to output resource metadata (items, item sets, and media) as elements in the HTML of their site pages. Resource Me…
Due to the planned shutdown of AddThis, we have changed the Social Bookmarking plugin to no longer rely on the service. The new plugin will offer the following share options: Omeka.net is a project of Digital Scholar. Omeka is a registered
We have exciting news for Omeka.net users this spring. Paid users now have access to a big batch of new plugins, as well as a new theme! Several other plugins have also been updated to offer great new features. Exhibit Builder—The Exhibit B…
Since its launch in 2008, Omeka Classic has only had one major interface overhaul which came with the version 2.0 release in 2013. At that time we continued the basic color scheme of earth tones, but now we’ve moved in the direction that ec…
Over the past year, we have made a number of updates and upgrades to Omeka.net that we think have improved your user experience. Many of these updates were driven by comments and suggestions from you, and we are thankful to have such engage…
Today marks the launch of a new look for Omeka.net, and many new benefits for users. Now is the time to sign up for an account to take advantage of our new pricing structure, enhanced functionality options, and additional storage. We’ve red…
Recently, an Omeka.net site, Hermoupolis Digital Heritage Management, won the most prestigious European Union Prize on Cultural Heritage, the Europa Nostra Award, in Digitalisation and Research. HERMES (HERitage Management E System) is a Di…
Archivist, historian, educator, and baker of all things chocolate, Marilyn Morgan (@mare_morgan), investigates—and encourages students to explore—social trends, cultural stereotypes, and discrimination throughout American history. Her class…
All Omeka.net sites have been upgraded to the latest version of Omeka, 2.4. The major improvement with this version is better handling of media files, which you can read about here. To keep up with the changing browser support landscape, Om…
This is the first in a series of posts highlighting sites built on Omeka.net. Claire Boreham (@archive_claire) is a postgraduate student in Archives Administration at Aberystwyth University. Her site, William Corbett’s Bookshop, allows visi…