Today we release a new Omeka theme for Curatescape projects. Curatescape Echo joins (the renamed) Curatescape Classic as an option for all Curatescape websites. This theme is fully compatible with the same set of plugins and the existing content structure, so all you’ll need to do is install and configure, then get on with your day. Check it out live on clevelandhistorical.org or read on for additional details and instructions.

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Curatescape 3 introduces a bunch of new features. Read on for an overview of the key changes and check out the latest version of Cleveland Historical for a live preview. We’re excited to begin rolling out Curatescape 3 to new and existing projects over the next several weeks.

Curatescape, the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University, Rhode Island Council for the Humanities and the Rhode Island Historical Society invite you to save the date of October 11-12, 2018 for an unconference devoted to Curatescape.  The unconference will kick off with dinner on October 11, followed by sessions all day on October 12, and it will be held at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

The latest version of the Curatescape theme for Omeka was released yesterday. The new design is currently live on clevelandhistorical.org and will be rolled out to existing users in the coming weeks (open source users can grab a copy from Github). The theme will look familiar to some, but includes a number of key changes and a ton of improvements that make it more than a simple design refresh. The front end has been almost entirely rewritten, with much cleaner markup, more consistent styling and typography, more semantic structure, and vastly improved accessibility, loading times, and overall page size. We think you’ll like it.

We’re pleased to announce that we’re almost done rolling out some big changes to Curatescape, including a totally redesigned app framework, as well as some nice improvements to the maps on Curatescape websites.

In addition to the big changes to the Curatescape apps, we’re also working on some cool updates to the Omeka theme. Check out the video below (or visit clevelandhistorical.org) to preview the new marker clustering feature.

Curatescape project Salt River Stories this weekend became the first in a series of planned partnerships with Google and Niantic Labs, in which geolocated historical stories will be made available in the Field Trip mobile app. While individual Curatescape projects will continue to have their own website and mobile apps, we are excited to begin sharing select works through additional venues such as Field Trip, bringing the work of participating Curatescape partners to an even wider audience.