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- Newsletter: October 2025
Message from the Director Dear Friends, With the fracturing of social media in recent years, all of us have faced challenges with keeping in touch and abreast of new developments in the field of digital cultural heritage. This is certainly true for the Omeka Team, where we miss the lively dialogue and sharing that our users formerly engaged in on Twitter. While our forums provide an open space for people to ask questions and to get assistance, sustained dialogue is hard in that space. In an effort to strengthen the avenues of communication between the development team and the many users, designers, and developers out in the world who regularly work with Omeka, next month we are launching a s … - Local Contexts Integration with Omeka
This week the Omeka Team released a set of add-ons that facilitate the integration of all Omeka platforms with the Local Contexts project. Local Contexts Labels allow Indigenous communities and local organizations to clearly articulate the conditions for sharing, use, and future engagement around collections and data in which they have an interest. Local Contexts Notices enable data and collections holders to mark that they recognize Indigenous rights and interests in those materials and, furthermore, to signal that they want to collaborate with Indigenous stakeholders to articulate the appropriate terms and conditions related to those materials. Once the parties have embarked up on that col … - Omeka and FAIR data principles
The Omeka Team has long had a commitment to interoperability and reuse facilitated through structured metadata – from the principles that fueled Omeka Classic’s initial design to the decision to put linked open data at the heart of the data model for Omeka S. As a result, we are committed to supporting the efforts of our users to adhere to the guidelines laid out in the FAIR Principles. At the same time, we recognize that the world of cultural heritage stewardship is implicated in centuries of dispossession and colonial appropriation, so we are equally invested in supporting efforts to implement the CARE principles for Indigenous Data Governance across our platforms. (We’ll discuss that in a … - Newsletter: July 2025
Message from the Director Dear Friends, As we reach the close of July, the Omeka Team has been moving forward on all fronts. The Summer Intensives with Dani Wilcutt are finishing up their eight weeks of work (registration for the Fall courses is now open). The Development team is approaching new releases for the core of both Omeka Classic and Omeka S, and half a dozen new add-ons are rolling out for both platforms. These developments are part of our effort to make sure that, even though Omeka Classic and Omeka S are well-established elements of the digital humanities and digital cultural heritage infrastructure, we continue to work hard to be responsive to your interests and needs as users. … - Newsletter: April 2025
Message from the Director Dear Friends, The last month in the United States has been extremely troubling for memory workers, scholars, students, and members of the public who work with and care about cultural heritage. The hearts of the whole Omeka Team go out to every individual and organization who has had a federal grant cancelled, and to the many, many dedicated public servants at the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Park Service who have had their jobs eliminated. In this time of upheaval, we want to provide some context about how the Omeka Team operates and also the safety of your work with our software. Omeka and al …
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