Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico (AREPR), I am writing today to let you know of some exciting new Omeka S themes and modules our amazing developer, Ivy Rose, has recently released.

The theme, “Multilingual” builds upon The Daily theme to bring some fantastic additions including togglable multilingual sites, accessibility functionality, and stylistic adaptability. Our project is using the theme for switchable Spanish and English sites, and it can similarly support a wide array of other languages. At present changes to the theme are made on a rolling basis through git, with an official release forthcoming.

Alongside the theme, two great new modules are now available:

• “SimplePDF” is a document viewer for PDF files with a key focus on accessibility, allowing for screen reader usage in multiple languages as well as the inclusion of accessible PDFs. 
• “Vimeo” allows for easy embedding of Vimeo videos, providing an interactive transcript UI and ingesting higher resolution video thumbnails into your Omeka collection. As with SimplePDF, Vimeo has been optimized for screen reader accessibility and usage in multiple languages, allowing for quick toggling between transcripts and translations.

Multilingual can be accessed from its GitHub repository, found here: https://github.com/ivyrze/omeka-s-theme-multilingual. “SimplePDF” and “Vimeo” are available on Omeka S’ modules page: https://omeka.org/s/modules/. The theme and both modules are free to use under a GPLv3 license and are designed for use with Omeka 3.0.0+.

Stay tuned for further developments—our group is actively working on other extensions, including an improved page blocks module providing increased user-friendly customizability of Omeka S sites. If you are interested in learning more about AREPR or working with Ivy Rose for your digital humanities projects, please let me know. Alternately, their Github can be found here: https://github.com/ivyrze. Ivy is an absolutely astounding developer and UX/UI designer—it’s rare finding someone with human centered values who has this expertise! Our grant is wrapping up its development stages, and they are interested in new opportunities.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Best wishes,

Andy