Open Source

02
Aug

Lessons from One Week | One Tool – Part 2, Use

For all the emphasis on the tool itself, the primary aim of One Week | One Tool is not tool building,
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27
Apr

Open Source Community and the Omeka Controlled Vocabulary Plugin

I love open source. Why? Here's a fairly representative example. Following Patrick Murray-John's excellent post and
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23
Nov

Benchmarking Open Source: Measuring Success by "Low End" Adoption

In an article about Kuali adoption, the Chronicle of Higher Education quotes Campus Computing Project director, Kenneth C. Green as
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12
Oct

E-Book Readers: Parables of Closed and Open

During a discussion of e-book readers on a recent episode of Digital Campus, I made a comparison between Amazon'
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09
Oct

UVA Scholars' Lab Working to Connect Omeka and Fedora

The Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia is working on a new plugin for Omeka that would connect
13
Mar

Briefly Noted: FOSS Culture; Digital Humanities Calendar; Guardian API; WWW Turns 20

GNOME Foundation executive director Stormy Peters has some advice on bridging the gap between institutional and open source cultures. Useful
26
Feb

Brand Name Scholar

Scholars may not like it, but that doesn't change the fact that in the 21st century's
1 min read
24
Feb

New Omeka Support Resources

Team Omeka has been hard at work. Not only are we preparing for a 1.0 alpha release in early
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12
Feb

Briefly Noted for February 12, 2009

Showing extreme negligence earlier in the week, I somehow forgot to mention the opening of applications for THATCamp 2009. Last
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08
Dec

Omeka Wins MATC Award

I'm very happy to report that Omeka was honored with a $50,000 Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration