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News, updates, and insights from the RefBytes team.
Introducing Meletema
Adaptive flashcards that live inside your LMS, with grades that reflect what a student actually knows. Here is what we built and why.
What LTI Actually Does, and Why It Matters
Learning Tools Interoperability is the reason a tool can live inside Canvas without a separate login. A plain explanation of the standard, and what to check before you adopt anything that claims to support it.
Not Everything Is a Collection
The room booking sheet, the digitization tracker, the spreadsheet that outgrew itself. On building the software a library needs that has nothing to do with the catalog.
Your A-Z Database List Deserves Better Than Letter Tabs
It is one of the most-visited pages your library runs and one of the most tedious to maintain. Introducing RefBytes A-Z.
When Omeka Needs One More Thing
Every collection eventually needs something the directory does not have. On custom modules, plugins, and themes — and how to decide whether you actually need one.
Introducing RefBytes Cloud for Omeka
Managed hosting for Omeka Classic and Omeka S, with both platforms in one dashboard. Here is what it does and why we built it this way.
What to Look For in an Omeka Hosting Provider
Omeka will run on almost any PHP host. That is not the same as running well. A practical checklist for evaluating where your collection is going to live.
Omeka Classic or Omeka S: How to Choose
Two platforms, one name, and a decision that shapes years of work. Here is how to tell which version of Omeka fits the collection you are actually building.