With the new Omeka.net signup options, what kind of url will a project have if we sign up with omeka.net?
For example, if we have a project baseball cards, abbreviated bbcards, would it be bbcards.omeka.net?
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Yes. The name of your new .net site will be the prefix to omeka.net, so your example is correct.
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How do I access the css files to do some customizing on omeka.net? I also have some simple pages and some already customized pages from another omeka installation. Can I ftp these up to my omeka.net site?
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This hosted service does not require user to have an FTP program, and so you cannot access the CSS or any of the other files. Unfortunately, you will not be able to upload any files that you have customized from your current omeka.org installation.
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This feels like a related (and possibly slightly redundant, but worth asking) question:
I've been playing around with Omeka.net, but would like to move items and collections to an Omeka installation on my own server so that I can access the CSS files. Is there a way to get at my data--not to change it or upload it on the Omeka server, but to export it? -
Are you interested in the CSS file or the items? Those are very different questions.
1. You may access the CSS file for your theme, by viewing the CSS through a web developer's tool bar in your browser or code inspector like Firebug.
2. If you are interested in exporting your items, please see http://help.omeka.net
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(I'm interested in exporting the items so that I can import them to a site where I have control over the CSS and JS.)
I had a bit of trouble figuring out how to do the export part of the process (help.omeka.net doesn't cover it anywhere that I noticed and does not have a site search function, though Omeka.org has a decent amount in importing), so I'll share what I'm doing here for later users: it looks like I can use the OAI-PMH Repository plug-in on the Omeka.net site and then the Harvester on the Omeka installation on my server--pretty easy!
Omeka is great.
Thanks for your help, Sheila!and
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That will work great.
You're right that there isn't quite the same flexibility with the omeka.net version, but some folks don't want or need the same things. I'm glad you've found the version that works best for you.
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Sorry if this is the wrong forum for Omeka.net issues-- but I have two issues that are making it hard to use it effectively.
1. Will the Zotero import plugin be rolled out to Omeka.net when it is released again?
2. Is there any documentation available on supported attachment types? Much of my 19th century publications and archival images are in DjVu format, and it appears that Omeka.net won't let me attach them.Regards,
Avram
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Hi Avram:
1. Will the Zotero import plugin be rolled out to Omeka.net when it is released again?
Not immediately, but hopefully sometime in the first half of 2011. We still have lots of work to do to make any plugins that do mass import/export work efficiently on Omeka.net.
Is there any documentation available on supported attachment types? Much of my 19th century publications and archival images are in DjVu format, and it appears that Omeka.net won't let me attach them.
We have a list of allowed file extensions and MIME types on the Building an Archive page at help.omeka.net. That said, I don't think we allow DjVu format. But we can see if Omeka is currently capable of displaying it correctly, and explore adding it to the list of allowed file types.
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There is a DjVu plugin for Omeka that was released in November (https://github.com/gjergjsheldija/omeka-djvu-viewer-plugin), but I'm not terribly familiar with it. There are also browser plugins for DjVu. So it's not possible to attach files that can't be displayed by built-in viewers?
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Yes, a developer built and released on GitHub a plugin on his own (see: http://groups.google.com/group/omeka-dev/msg/8a355e3538bb591b), but this does not work on Omeka.net.
To make this plugin work, you would need to be running the installable version on your own server. I'm not very familiar with Djvu, as this was not something that we developed in-house at CHNM.
Regarding file types, we limited the file and mime types that a user may upload to Omeka.net to ensure the security of everyone's hosted websites.
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Hi, I've made an account on omeka.net, and have since been invited to some other omeka.net sites. However, I can't see them from my dashboard. Instead, clicking on the invitation asks me to make a new account. I checked the email addresses, and i appear to have been invited using the same addressl as I made my omeka.net account with.
thanks
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The email addresses must match exactly. Even if you have email forwarding, you still must use the same address for the accounts to match up properly.
Please send an email through the Omeka.net site, http://help.omeka.net/contact/
and include the email address and username for your current account.
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Jeremy on Zotero import:
Not immediately, but hopefully sometime in the first half of 2011. We still have lots of work to do to make any plugins that do mass import/export work efficiently on Omeka.net.
Any progress on this?
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It is still on our todo list, but not for this calendar year. We've released some other plugins this year for batch importing, such as the CSV Import, OAI-PMH Importer that took some time to configure for .net sites.
Don't worry, it's still on our radar!
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