Scholars’ Lab and CHNM Partner on “Omeka + Neatline”

By admin · February 15, 2011

The Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia Library and the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University are pleased to announce a collaborative “Omeka + Neatline” initiative, supported by $665,248 in funding from the Library of Congress. The Omeka + Neatline project’s goal is to enable scholars, students, and library…. Continue reading “Scholars’ Lab and CHNM Partner on “Omeka + Neatline””.

Building Omeka Exhibits with Fedora Repository Content

By Ethan Gruber · December 15, 2010

Our NEH-funded Neatline project has inspired the Scholars’ Lab to develop or enhance several new Omeka plugins recently. (See our full list.) One of these is FedoraConnector, which is designed to enable administrators to attach Fedora datastreams (a digital object — whether image, XML like TEI or EAD, or video) to Omeka items. This is…. Continue reading “Building Omeka Exhibits with Fedora Repository Content”.

WMS vs. tilecaching

By Adam Soroka · June 30, 2010

In our work on Neatline, we have made a deliberate choice to start by restraining our work to map-sources that are quickly and easily provided through WMS. This leaves out (for now) two popular sources of map imagery; Google Maps and Open Street Map. I’m going to explain why we made that choice, and why, when we do come to make these sources usable with Neatline, we will do so with great care and with an eye to scholarly method.

Expanding the Capabilities of Omeka

By Ethan Gruber · June 17, 2010

Because I have a keen interest in the description of cultural heritage artifacts and in doing interesting things with metadata, in recent months I have developed a handful of Omeka plugins to meet these interests. My first foray into plugin development for the application was with the EAD Importer. The EAD Importer, as the name…. Continue reading “Expanding the Capabilities of Omeka”.

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