This event sounds very fun, and yeah, seems an evolution from previous DH rocking/groking formats. Which is welcome!

In the spirit of putting something together, I’ve recently been working on our group’s thoughts about code and licenses (that’s the Digital Scholarship Group at Northeastern University). In particular, this really needed some…[Read more]

Thanks, Hannah, for putting this together. I hope the many Omeka users and hackers in NYC will contribute!

I’m working on some guides toward what the Omeka community has said they want more of. It’ll be up and ready on Monday.

Any level of Omeka hacking/theming/coding is great for contributing. You’ll solidify what you’ve already learned, and…[Read more]

The Omeka forums might be a good place to ask, if you haven’t already. Others out there with Neatline experience might point you in the right direction.

That convo looks old enough that it won’t really apply to new stuff, like within the past 2 years of Omeka, since 2.0 was released.

That said, depending on what “integration” means, there might be some options.

If you want to put items from Omeka into a WordPress site, the EmbedCodes plugin might work.

If you want blogging alongside an Omeka…[Read more]

Hi Christopher,

If you haven’t already, you might float out a request on the Omeka designer/developer marketplace forum.

I’d say it’ll also help to define a sense of what kinds of building / customization you anticipate. Much can be done via the admin UI and shortcodes. Theme tweaking and customization is a different story, and customized…[Read more]

Ah! Excellent! Your update came just as I was typing a reply that the process of sending out the 17,000+ emails was still running, so it was likely just waiting for it’s place in the queue!

As of right now, I think you can ask them to turn on the export plugin by contacting them via the contact form. However, the CSV that generates only includes Item metadata and files.

If you can wait a few weeks, though, Omeka.net will be updated to the latest version of Omeka, which includes API access. There is a separate Omeka plugin that you…[Read more]

If the past upgrade experience was something big like 1.x to 2.x, there is much less to worry about in 2.1.3 to 2.2.2. It won’t break themes or plugins, for example.

You could look through the plugin to see how it works. Most of the guts are in the views folder, so you could probably copy a lot of that.

If you use the latest and greatest Omeka (version 2.2.2), the shortcode carousel plugin will let you add that with a shortcode in a simple page, and you can then make that your homepage in the navigation settings. Most other parts of Omeka homepages can also be built with the various other shortcodes.

If you’ve built up your homepage directly in…[Read more]

Dagmar,

Regarding Omeka and preservation, I see two different levels: preservation proper — including things like checksums on files and maintaining that integrity, confirming sameness of two different files, etc. — and backup management. From what I gather, different groups or institutions have a variety of levels of need between those.

I can…[Read more]