We’re pleased to release a new Omeka plugin today: the MediaRSS plugin for the Cooliris image viewer. This plugin makes your archive browsable using the popular Firefox extension that “transforms your browser into a full-screen 3D experience for enjoying online media.” The ability to zoom into images and browse a visual wall creates [...]

Have you ever wanted to annotate your images on Omeka like you can on Flickr? 
Now you can with the beta release of Omeka’s Image Annotation plugin!  Using an adaptation of Chris Woods’ jQuery plugin, jquery-image-annotate, Omeka’s new Image Annotation plugin allows users to add textual annotations to images. To add an image annotation, [...]

We want to remind you that our OAI-PMH Harvester and Repository plugins are now available for last minute testing. The Harvester imports metadata from remote OAI-PMH data providers, while the Repository exposes your Omeka metadata using the OAI-PMH specification. Both plugins are release candidates (1.0RC), meaning we don’t recommend that you use them on your [...]

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 [...]

Now that Omeka 1.0 Beta is out, we can start pushing out new and updated plugins. Today we’re releasing a plugin that allows you to import records from OAI-PMH data providers. OAI-PMH is one way that digital repositories expose their metadata to the public. If you want a fast way to import records from these [...]