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Omeka is a next-generation web publishing platform for smaller history museums, historical societies, and historic sites. Omeka will do for this constituency what blog software has done for ordinary web surfers - offer an easy, professional, and state-of-the-art way to display their content online.

Building on CHNM’s extensive track record in building software for scholarship and cultural heritage that is free, open source, and well used, and Scholar’s Lab’s expertise in large scale digital library and archives technology development and deployment, data visualization, and geographic mapping, this project aims to expand the Omeka-Neatline collaboration to improve, expand, disseminate, and support a set of Omeka plugins to help libraries, archives, and museums—from the local level to the…

Large collecting institutions and their foundation backers have made good progress in recent years digitizing and making collections available online. Private corporations such as Thompson and Google have also done extensive work in this area. As impressive as these large-scale efforts are, materials found in large archives represent just a fraction of the unique archival materials in institutional holdings. Far greater—in numbers and even richness—are the combined collections found in small…

To build a set of plugins for Omeka to meet the particular demands of art historians and art museum staff: CDWA-lite migration tool; Cooliris slide show integration tool; and image annotation tool

A white paper investigating mobile technology usage in gallery spaces and makes recommendations for art museums on how best to use these new applications to engage visitors with visual art objects

The Omeka team held "playdates" in 2009 and 2010 which were a type of workshop that taught participants how to use the platform. The Omeka team also sought targeted feedback on the code development, user interface design, user experience, and use case scenarios for digital humanities and digital cultural heritage projects.

The playdates scheduled the day before THATCamp were popular, and inspired others to run workshops that become THATCamp Bootcamps.