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The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has come to the conclusion that effective digital tools for scholars are forged mostly in practice rather than theory. There is no reason that a weeklong institute can't both teach and produce something useful to the community—an actual digital humanities tool—while also laying the foundation and skills for future endeavors by the participants. Indeed, the act of doing, of building the tool, should be the best way for participants…

2011 Omeka team photo with Dolly Parton souvenir blanket (l-r): Sharon Leon, John Flatness, Sheila Brennan, Patrick Murray-John, Roberto Sanchez, Kim Nguyen, and Tom Scheinfeldt

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.

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

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

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…

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…

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.

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