As the Omeka development continues, our team is very interested in knowing the approximate size of your Omeka archive. This information will help us improve and optimize the software for sites of all sizes.

Please take a second to participate in our poll.

And, if you have another minute, please tell us about your project development in the Forums, Use Cases section: http://omeka.org/forums/forum/use-cases.

Thanks and enjoy the long weekend!

Today, the Omeka team is releasing the first beta of a new plugin: Reports. Reports lets you create a formatted report from a set of selected Omeka items. You can save information about thousands of items at once, and if you add new items, they’re automatically included in future reports.

The most exciting feature is that Reports let you create a PDF with printable QR Codes for your Omeka items. Mobile phone users can scan the code and will be sent directly to your site where they can learn more about an object on display in an exhibit.

The plugin also supports HTML output, and it can be extended to create a report in almost any format.

Download the 1.0 beta and try it out. Remember, this is a beta release, so it’s not quite ready for use with production sites.

Have a problem to report or a suggestion to make? Please, leave us feedback on the Forums.

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.

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 repositories, try out this plugin. You can read more about it in our documentation.

The OAI-PMH Harvester plugin is still in beta, so we don’t suggest that you use it on your live site; but test it out and tell us what you think:

Download the OAI-PMH Harvester plugin.

Jim

Have you picked up an Omeka sticker or bookmark lately at a conference? If you’ve been creative, like Lincoln Mullen, please send us your photo (outreach [at] omeka [dot] org) and we will add it to the Omeka Flickr stream.

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