Following all the exciting work and news coming from Day of DH, the Omeka team wants to keep that spirit going by giving a shout-out to all of the people using – and improving – Omeka by sharing the wonderful materials they have.
We’d like to thank all the people who have contributed to Omeka by submitting questions in our forums. These are great people building great new sites, and doing DH by building, tweaking, asking questions, and making new ways to publish their work and holdings.
In the last year or so, we’ve also seen a noticeable increase in the number of people who suggest ideas, insights, and sometimes even code. Sometime this comes via our forums, sometimes via the dev list, sometimes via GitHub. From whatever path it comes, it is always welcome and a wonderful part of doing Digital Humanities in a collaborative way.
We want to highlight a few examples of recent contributions from the Omeka community:
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Erin Bell has a project that calls for optimizing how we expose Geolocation data, as part of the ongoing awesomeness of Curatescape (a recent winner of an NEH-ODH startup grant).
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Lincoln Mullen had a great idea to make the workflow for his project easier: an “Add Item” link from the admin bar. He’s added his Add Item Link plugin to the list of plugins for you to enjoy, too.
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Dave Widmer has also been giving us great patches to improve our code.
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Daniel Lind noticed that dates in Omeka were stored in a format that doesn’t work well across locations, and so we made that change and it will be part of our next release.
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Iwe Muiser has submitted several issues and fixes to how Omeka users can interact with the site.
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Katherine Lynch has noticed places where we can improve our ADA compliance, and is submitting helpful patches.
Many individuals are submitting translations since our recent move to internationalization via Transifex, with some notable contributions by:
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Matti Lassila has produced improvements to our localizations, both for core Omeka and for plugins.
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Masaki Hidano built a Japanese localization for our CSV Import plugin, which will be included in our next release of the plugin.
We appreciate all of the small things that you do, and sometimes those are the most important. All of these individual contributions help extend the reach of Omeka, and more broadly, DH, as wide as possible.
I also want to thank our long-time friends at Scholars’ Lab , creators of the great Neatline suite of plugins.
Last but not least, Anne Wootton and Bailey Smith have been hard at work producing plugins and a theme for the PopUp Archive, an archive for sound files of all kinds. This involves sharing PBCore metadata, audio files, and connecting to the Internet Archive. They’ll be describing their work and their plugins and theme in next week’s post.
I hope that gives just a small taste of the activities surrounding Omeka, and the range of people who are part of the community.