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- Newsletter: January 2025
Message from the Director Happy 2025, Omekans! We are looking forward to a very productive year in the coming months. In December, the team met for a day-long session of priority setting that will guide our work in this new year. As a result, we’ve published a set of development priorities for both Omeka Classic and Omeka S. Omeka Classic is the heart of so much essential digital cultural heritage work and it remains central to much of our thinking as a team, especially because we provide it as a service via Omeka.net. During the coming year, we will continue to focus on accessibility and usability improvements. Also, we are eager to integrate into the Exhibit Builder many of the authoring a … - Seeking: Omeka Testing Associate
This position is now filled. Position: Omeka Testing Associate Position: This is an open-ended, part-time, contract position. Up to 20 hours a week (overlap hours between 10am and 4pm EST) Rate: $30 per hour Location: Falls Church, VA or Remote We’re committed to providing an equal employment opportunity and a work environment free from any discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, or pregnancy status. Omeka Testing Associate The Omeka Team is looking for someone to contribute to our software functionality and user interface testing work for the Omeka family of web publishi … - Hierarchy and features for those with archival collections
Recently the Omeka Dev Team has released a Hierarchy module for Omeka S that should be of interest to users who are working with archival collections. Inherently Omeka S has a flat data model. Items may be associated with many Item Sets, but Item Sets cannot contain other Item Sets. Now with the Hierarchy module, users can indicate relationships among Item Sets in a nested fashion. Thus, a user might create logical groupings of items that reflect their physical organization in an archives (record group/collection, series, box, folder, etc.). Of course, users may create as many hierarcies and in as many organizational structures as they like. Then, once the hierarchies are created, a user may … - Newsletter: October 2024
Message from the Director Happy Fall, Omekans! Fall is a season of change and taking stock and that is no different for the Omeka Team. During this month we’ve said a fond farewell to Zach Francis-Hapner. For the past two years, Zach has diligently developed and grown our training programs, helping so many of you take better advantage of the facilities of Omeka platforms. But, in addition to being a talented instructor, Zach is a skilled archaeologist who has dedicated his career to the responsible disposition of native remains and cultural objects to their communities. So, we’re happy to have him dedicate all of his time to those important activities for the University of Wisconsin system. … - Newsletter: July 2024
Message from the Director Greetings, Omekans! It’s the dog days of summer here in Northern Virginia, and just like many of you the Omeka Team is hard at work during its busiest season. We’re moving forward with developments for archivists and oral historians that we will release in the Fall and Winter. For so many, summer is a time for grant proposal development and planning. The Omeka Team has decades of combined experience designing and sustaining digital cultural heritage projects, so we know how important it is to plan for the future right from the beginning. To try to assist our users with that planning, we’ve launched our Sustainability Hosting Plans. More than a proforma data manageme …
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