In response to a serious issue reported with Exhibit Builder for Omeka 2.0, we fixed the problem immediately and are releasing an updated version of Exhibit Builder. To avoid loss of data, we strongly recommend that you update your Exhibit Builder plugin. For anyone starting out, the new Exhibit Builder is packaged with Omeka 2.0.1.

This bug does not affect Exhibit Builder for Omeka version 1.5.3 or below.

The Omeka team apologizes for the inconvenience.

We here at team Omeka want to give a heartfelt “Thank you!” to everyone who voted for Omeka in the Digital Humanities Awards “Best DH tool or suite of tools” category. We were surprised and humbled to hear the news! Thank you!

We very much appreciate not only the votes, but more importantly the community of users and developers that has grown up around Omeka, and continues to grow. Your use of Omeka, encouragement, feedback, and forum discussions keep us very motivated to continue bringing you the best Omeka we can!

And so, we’d like the thank everyone who voted for Omeka the best way we know how: with a bugfix release and more updated plugins! Omeka 2.0.1 is ready to download, and fixes some issues with error handling, forms, and other minor issues (thanks to Iwe Muiser and Dave Widmer for reports and fixes) Localization has also been improved (thanks to Matti Lassila).

The Exhibit Builder and COinS plugins also have new versions, packaged with Omeka and available for download separately. These fix a problem with special cases when upgrading Exhibit Builder and memory use in COinS.

Please see the release notes for more details.

What’s more, four more popular plugins have now been upgraded to be compatible with Omeka 2.x.

CSV Import allow site administrators to import items via a comma-separated values file. The upgrade also includes better handling for multiple files, more versatility in how values are separated, and an auto-map feature that improves workflow with a standard set of column headings in your CSV file.

Collection Tree allows site administrators to create nested collections.

Pdf Text is a major rewrite of Pdf Search. It makes your PDF files attached to items searchable via Omeka 2.x’s new and overhauled search mechanism.

Social Bookmarking lets site administrators configure links to a widely expanded number of social media sites so your site visitors can share interesting items with others.

We know many of you are anxious to see some of our other plugins and themes updated to play well with the Omeka 2.x series. Never fear, we’re working on them (again, with some kind and much appreciated contributions from developers who have been giving them a sneak peek via our open repositories on GitHub)! They will be coming along shortly.

We also have a few new plugins that extend Omeka in exciting new directions nearing release. We hope that they will be helpful to site users, administrators, and developers alike. Stay tuned.

And again, thanks for voting!

The Omeka dev team is pleased to announce the release of Omeka 1.5.2 and updates to the My Omeka, CSV Import, and Simple Pages plugins.

Omeka 1.5.2 fixes bugs relating to advanced search and the HTML editor. It also updates the language packs for several languages, and includes new translations for Arabic and Japanese.

Simple Pages 1.3 makes the HTML editor available within the Simple Pages editing screen, allowing users to more easily compose and style text.

CSV Import 1.3.4 resolves some issues when importing from Omeka.net’s CSV export, improves validation for allowed file sizes, and greatly enhances warnings about errors during the import process.

My Omeka 1.0.1 resolves issues relating to user interface and possible errors with some URL paths.

Simple Pages 1.3 is, as usual, bundled with the release of Omeka, but you can also download it directly from the link above.

Many thanks, and happy building!

The Omeka team is pleased to announce updates to three popular addons to bring them in line with Omeka 1.5.x.

First, the My Omeka plugin, which allows visitors to your site to annotate items and build their own “posters” to organize and display their work, is now updated to work with Omeka 1.5.

Second, for our theme developers, the From Scratch theme, which is designed to jump-start your theme development by providing a simple style-less basis for your own themes, has been updated to reflect current best practices for theme developers. You will see examples of how to properly use Omeka’s localization system and how to add CSS and javascript to your themes.

Last, we will soon be releasing an updated Simple Pages plugin, which will allow you to choose whether to use the HTML editor for each page. Because it is also one of the plugins that are bundled with core Omeka releases, though, we want to give our teams of translators a chance to add in the new translations. We plan to release the update Simple Pages, with the new translations, on Thursday, May 31, 2012.

Thanks, and happy building!

Omeka 1.4.2 is out! This is the second maintenance release for Omeka 1.4.

As always, you can get Omeka 1.4.2 from the download page.

This release fixes several issues:

• Fixed problems that made some files impossible to delete.
• Files can now be ingested from cloud storage services like Amazon S3.
• Thumbnails are now created correctly for images with multiple frames (like animated gifs).

For a full list of the fixes in Omeka 1.4.2, read the release notes.