June 2nd, 2009 § § permalink
Reblogged from Omeka.org:
If you have been waiting to try Omeka, today’s the day.
Today the Omeka team at CHNM and our growing developer community are celebrating the release of Omeka 1.0. This production-grade release marks the completion of Omeka’s basic requirement set. Maintaining our commitment to serious web publishing for scholarship and cultural heritage, Omeka 1.0 incorporates unqualified Dublin Core metadata for organizing and displaying collections; support for extensible element sets; robust, flexible theme and plugin APIs; and plugins for Zotero compatibility, static page creation, and building sophisticated online exhibitions.
New with Omeka 1.0 is an improved exhibit builder; support for associating and displaying file-type icons; JPEG2000 support; and new import plugins, including a CSV importer and an OAI-PMH harvester. Moreover, with the addition of an OAI-PMH repository plugin, Omeka can now serve as an OAI provider. Best of all, Omeka 1.0 maintains its five minute setup, its intuitive user interface, its easy design theme switching, its many site enhancing plugins, and its free support resources.
This is a major milestone for Omeka, and we are very grateful to the many supporters, evangelists, open source developers, forums contributors, funding agencies, and friends who made it possible. Over the next several months, the Omeka team will continue to release bug fixes, minor improvements, and additional plugins and themes. But most of our energy will be devoted to making Omeka available as a hosted web service, allowing Omeka users the choice of downloading and hosting their own installation of Omeka, or signing up for a hosted account at Omeka.net. Stay tuned.
Download Omeka 1.0 today.
June 1st, 2009 § § permalink
The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (http://chnm.gmu.edu) is celebrating fifteen years of providing high-quality, free educational resources and tools to an audience that grows exponentially each year. Last year, sixteen million people visited CHNM’s websites and over two million people used our software.
The historians and technologists at CHNM feel lucky to serve this vast audience, but although all of our tools and resources are free, they are not without cost. With your help we hope to continue our service and innovation for another fifteen years and beyond. The National Endowment for the Humanities has given CHNM a rare challenge grant, which will match donations to CHNM’s endowment for a limited time.
Whether you use CHNM’s popular Zotero software for your research, get your daily fix from the History News Network, learn from award-winning sites such as Historical Thinking Matters and Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives, or scan through unique digital archives such as the Papers of the War Department, we hope you will make a contribution today. Your tax-deductible gift will help us to reach even more students, teachers, and scholars worldwide.
To make your donation right now, please visit:
http://chnm.gmu.edu/donate/
From all of us at the Center for History and New Media, we thank you in advance for helping us, as our motto says, “Build a Better Yesterday, Bit by Bit.”
March 2nd, 2009 § § permalink
Here are the slides and audio from my presentation at MCN Taiwan. It was a wonderful trip full of conversations with engaging colleagues in the museum and library communities. I look forward to future interaction and collaboration with members of the organization when they come to the US for MCN in November.
May 24th, 2007 § § permalink
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Originally uploaded by smleon.
Yes, that’s a vector-based recreation of the CHNM logo — much in demand for our print projects. This one has a brighter set of colors. There’s also a new one with the traditional colors. This is what happens when I don’t have an internet connection for a couple of hours…..
April 9th, 2007 § § permalink
February 6th, 2007 § § permalink
Announcing the launch of The Object of History:
January 19th, 2007 § § permalink
32_79 Bowling_1.jpg
Originally uploaded by smleon.
This is probably cheating, since I didn’t actually take this picture (thanks Jim). But you can see the rest of the set in the CHNM set in my flickr account. We’re quite a sporting bunch.
January 8th, 2007 § § permalink
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Originally uploaded by smleon.
The Smithsonian Material Culture Forum was a wonderful experience and suggests that there is much work for CHNM to do with the Smithsonian Institution and it’s affiliates.
January 7th, 2007 § § permalink
Look for the excellent plug for Zotero from Kristin Lehner about a minute and half in from the HNN daily review at AHA.
October 22nd, 2006 § § permalink
Sheila at Relaxing on the Trail is beginning what promises to be an extremely useful series for those of us who think about new media and public history. She’s conducting reviews of history museum sites–one from each state and territory, beginning with the Chicago History Museum. Check in periodically for a new review.
