Prepping for Omeka’s Code4Lib Presentation

There’s a small typo in this year’s Code4Lib schedule - Omeka is the digital archive and exhibit-building software developed by the Center for History and New Media, not Omedka as the program states. Hopefully anyone at the conference who Googles “omedka” will find this, and visit our official website, http://omeka.org

Omeka featured on THAT Podcast

We made it to episode two! And check out that Omeka swag! Omeka was featured in the most-recent episode of THAT Podcast, including interviews with CHNM Managing Director, Tom Scheinfeldt and Director of Public Projects, Sharon Leon. The second half of the episode is a screencast taking you through the process of [...]

Off to Code4Lib in Portland

On Monday I’ll be traveling out to Portland, Oregon for the week with some fellow CHNM‘ers to present Omeka! Trevor Owens will also be giving a Zotero presentation and pre-conference workshop. It will be a great opportunity to meet some developers face-to-face who I’ve only worked with via email so far. Time permitting, I may blog about while [...]

Omeka Goes Public with release 0.9.0

This morning we released the first public version of Omeka, the web publishing system for digital collections that I’ve been lucky to be a developer of at the Center for History and New Media since last May. And we’ve come a long way. I’ve seen the code change dramatically, increase significantly in speed, [...]

Oral History Interview with Dale LaFrenz

The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) was instrumental in not only deploying the earliest computers into public schools in Minnesota, but also developing software that would become nationally popular like The Oregon Trail computer game. A window into the past, I’ve come across an oral history interview with Dale LaFrenz, the founding assistant director of [...]