Six more weeks of winter lie ahead, making the forthcoming frigid days perfect for starting or tweaking an Omeka project. The Omeka team will be working hard as well in February during the newly-designated “Omeka Outreach Month.”
We plan to write a few blog posts, seek assistance with plugin and theme development, and drop a new [...]

I’m pleased to announce the release of a frequently requested plugin, the Creative Commons Chooser. This plugin was created by a member of our open source community, Mohit Gupta.
Creative Commons Chooser allows site administrators to associate Creative Commons licenses with individual Omeka items by providing a Commons License Chooser in the admin interface. Items in [...]

Omeka is now supported by JumpBox, a service that simplifies the process of installing open source software. JumpBox gives you the option to run a virtual machine locally on your Windows/Mac/Linux personal computer, or to purchase website hosting that includes Omeka already installed.
If you’re interested in learning more about how to use Omeka with [...]

The leaves are changing in Northern Virginia and it’s time for another Omeka release. Omeka version 1.1 fixes several bugs, includes the newest version of Exhibit Builder, and offers a few new features.
In 1.1., users will have more control over their installation through the admin interface, such as:

Toggling more easily between the public site and [...]

We are happy to release ExhibitBuilder plugin version 0.5. Here are the major changes for 0.5:

Adds pagination for exhibits in the admin.
Gives Contributor users the ability to add/edit their own Exhibits, adds a function to check user permissions for a specific exhibit.
Fixes the problem of displaying special characters in exhibit layouts.
Fixes CSS bug where [...]