Week 7 – At this point, to resolve some of the issuesI encountered with the plugins, I had quite a few exchanges with Hostgator technical team (of my website). The did not prove very helpful as the errors were related partly to Omeka, but also partly to the server – one of the technical assistants told me that it was in fact a server issue. I also scheduled appointments with Stefano Morelli, a Digital Fellow, who is very knowledgeable of Omeka  (interestingly so, this coincided with our class recommendation of meeting /getting advice from Digital Fellows). He was super helpful. We were unable to solve the issue, though – as I’ve said, the issue was server related.

Many many hours of work – web searches, getting consultations, etc -and the Contributions Plugin, which is so critical to our project, was not working! Just as I was getting extremely frustrated, an email arrived from Dr Maney giving us the great news: that the Reclaim accounts were here. If you know me, you know exactly the language I used when I responded right away – excitement and exclamations!

On the flip side, I learned a lot about Omeka during this process and felt readier for the next stage than I was for the first.