I hope to lead a session (along with Jon Lesser) that will focus on Omeka from a programmer’s eye by hacking away at plugins, looking at the core, and discussing future developments of the code.  I know some THATCampers are currently using Omeka, so this could be an opportunity to not only say ‘now, what I REALLY want to do is X,’ but for some work to be done hacking away at a solution.  One of our developers at CHNM, Jim Safley, has been working on an OAI-PMH harvester that we could hack as a work-in-progress example of data migration, and there are a host of other hackable Omeka plugins that are currently under version control.  Also, I wouldn’t mind showing people how to convert WordPress themes into Omeka themes by using Omeka helper functions to retrieve data.  Yes, you too can be an Omeka hax0r.

This session is really up in the air, and anyone who has tried Omeka and done anything from hacking a theme, to migrating data, to creating a plugin is welcome to come.  I think Omeka will come up in other theoretical sessions of digital humanities, but this may be a good time to see what’s “under the hood.”  I’d like to spend 10-15 minutes opening up the code and explaining the basics of the guts, and beyond that I’m open to any possible path for how things will go.  Post comments with your ideas or questions, and perhaps we can plan on collaborating on one or a series of plugins that could wind up in the Omeka plugin directory.

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