Digital Scholar

Today we are sharing our 2024 Annual Report. We were pleased to celebrate our 15th anniversary this year, and to continue our fruitful collaborations with many of you. In this report you will find a summary of the year’s highlights and the important developments that have occurred with each of our open source software projects. As we look forward to the rest of 2025, we have exciting things planned for the projects, and we hope to hear from you about the ways that we can all work together to support and sustain open source software and open access resources in digital scholarship.

Congratulations on making your match, Knowledge Commons!

The Omeka Team is hiring! Are you looking to help assure that every core and add-on release is ready for users on day one? Consider applying to be an Omeka Testing Associate: https://lnkd.in/eb_iegAb

Happy to share the 5.8 release of the PressForward plugin, which includes the overhaul of key features, and now allows for submitting source URLs to the Internet Archive. https://lnkd.in/e8efzE3M

The latest version of PressForward is available for your aggregation and curation needs. Take v.5.7.0 for a spin! https://lnkd.in/dzEHHVP5

We are pleased to announce that after a hiatus, DHNow is returning in Fall 2024, under the editorial direction of @[email protected] Get ready to join us in this venture by: - Firing up your blogs, newsletters, and other channels for publication and expression (micro and major) - Adding a feed to your static sites and newsletters - Sharing your home on the web with us: https://lnkd.in/eJFxaYxz

We are pleased to announce that after a hiatus, DHNow is returning in Fall 2024, under the editorial direction of @[email protected] Get ready to join us in this venture by: - Firing up your blogs, newsletters, and other channels for publication and expression (micro and major) - Adding a feed to your static sites and newsletters - Sharing your home on the web with us: https://lnkd.in/eJFxaYxz

We are very much looking forward to #DH2024 in Arlington, VA next month. We hope you'll join us there (either in person or virtually). Come meet some of the developers who make your favorite open source DH software, like Zotero, Omeka, Tropy, Sourcery, and PressForward. And, we'll have a special announcement for the OG DHers! https://dh2024.adho.org/

So glad to be part of this amazing programme introducing Tropy (https://tropy.org/) early next month. Tropy is an essential tool for any historian working with digitized historical sources today. I always like to emphasize that it is not exclusively a digital humanities tool; it is a tool for all historians. For those working with Digital Public History, the possibility to expand the tool with plugins like the Omeka integration (https://lnkd.in/dScYTsDe) or Tropifffy, to export IIIF collections from your Tropy project (https://lnkd.in/dA82rcbz), are great ways to streamline the curatorial and publishing activities of your project's web presence. If you are interested in learning more about Tropy but missed the opportunity to join the EUROPAST summer school, send me a PM. I'm happy to exchange ideas!

Today the Omeka Team is pleased to announce the release of Omeka S v.4.1, which includes major improvements to the software's page authoring capabilities: https://lnkd.in/e4R7JirU