Omeka.net Beta Launches

" This open-source, free, web-based publishing tool is both a digital repository and a way to build online exhibits. Created to be used easily by non-programmers, it is also flexible and powerful enough to meet large institutional needs....Up until this point, however, Omeka users have needed to install Omeka themselves, either on their own server or on a web host. While this is a fairly easy process, it is a barrier that some people have been unwilling to take, because of ability, opportunity, or simply comfort level. If you are one of those people, however, you have one less excuse for not using Omeka than you did yesterday. At the Museum Computer Network Conference on Thursday, the Center for History and New Media, the makers of Omeka, announced Omeka.net Beta, a version of Omeka that is hosted by the Corporation for Digital Scholarship, a non-profit organized to provide financial and technical services to free and open-source research and education software projects like Omeka and Zotero...."