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 [...]

Sorry — this has become something of a defunct blog! That doesn’t mean that we’ve stopped working on Neatline — it’s just that we’re too busy building it to write about it. Please see our list of Neatline-related Omeka plugins, all of which have been created by the Scholars’ Lab in support of this project. [...]

[This is a re-posting of content from the Scholars' Lab blog by Adam Soroka.] In our work on Neatline, we have made a deliberate choice to start by constraining ourselves 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 [...]

A lot of extra (detachable-from-Neatline) goodness is resulting from our decision to reconceive this project as an approach rather than a stand-alone tool — and therefore as a collection of Omeka plugins. One example of this is the recent release for testing, by Scholars’ Lab R&D, of a SIMILE Timeline plugin for Omeka. Wayne Graham, [...]

[As Adam Soroka described in his last post, we made a shift to Omeka early in the Neatline project in order to speed development and put our work in the hands of end users already thinking about the relationship of archival collections to scholarly analysis and presentation. Omeka's plugin architecture also allows us to share [...]

Over the past few months, we have drastically altered the technical undergirding of Neatline for three reasons. Our new plan will produce tools that more people will be able to use. The new style of development will permit faster, better work. Lastly, we will be developing in concert with a much larger community. Our new [...]

The public announcement has been made, so Adam Soroka and I can now share the news that we’ve been funded by the NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities and the IMLS to pursue our “Neatline” project.  We’ll begin working again in September in earnest, on a tool that Adam prototyped in support of a code4lib pre-conference [...]