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An Introduction to Omeka Nora Mattern ULS/iSchool Digital Scholarship Workshop and Lecture Series April 10, 2015

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An Introduction to Omeka

Nora MatternULS/iSchool Digital Scholarship Workshop and Lecture Series

April 10, 2015

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Welcome!

Acknowledgements: Miriam Posner’s “Up and Running with Omeka.net”

http://goo.gl/dDMhEd

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What’s in store

• Setting the stage

• A delve into Omeka

• Rights considerations

• A quick look at relevant guidance

• Omeka lab time

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Setting the Stage

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Exhibits

what comes to your mind?

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What information can we derive from exhibits?

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wayne-Thiebaud---De-Young-1_label.jpg

Metadata

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metadata

metadata

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metadata

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interpretation

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content management system

What is it?

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http://thepresidentcomestotown.omeka.net/

Omeka site

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A delve into Omeka

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What is it?

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http://omeka.org/about/

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“The basic unit of an Omekasite. An item can be anything: a photograph, a work of art, a person, an idea. You’ll describe each item, and you can upload files to represent it, too. You’ll build your Omeka site by assembling items.”

From Posner’s “Omeka Quick-Start Guide for Omeka Vocabulary”

Item --

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“A set of items that you’ve grouped together. Your Omeka site can have multiple collections, but an individual item can only belong to one collection at a time.”

From Posner’s “Omeka Quick-Start Guide for Omeka Vocabulary”

Collection--

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“A thematic tour of your items. Each exhibit has sections and pages. You might think of these as akin to book chapters and book pages. A section is a group of pages, and a page is a group of items (along with descriptions). You can have multiple exhibits, and items can belong to multiple exhibits.”

From Posner’s “Omeka Quick-Start Guide for Omeka Vocabulary”

Exhibit-

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Let’s create!

http://goo.gl/dDMhEd

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http://omeka.net

https://omeka.org

v.

http://info.omeka.net/about/

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your collection and exhibits

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Objectives

Audience(s)

Content

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http://www.loc.gov/pictures/

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Your Site!

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Let’s install the exhibits plugin

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ItemA reminder from Posner’s Vocab sheet: “The basic unit of an Omeka site. An item can be anything: a photograph, a work of art, a person, an idea. You’ll describe each item, and you can upload files to represent it, too. You’ll build your Omeka site by assembling items.”

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What does “type” mean, for example?

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Metadata

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A decision to be made –

what are you describing?

The physical object?Or the digitized one?

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Collection

A reminder from Posner’s Vocab sheet: “A set of items that you’ve grouped together. Your Omeka site can have multiple collections, but an individual item can only belong to one collection at a time.”

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Exhibit

A reminder from Posner’s Vocab sheet: “A set of items that you’ve grouped together. Your Omeka site can have multiple collections, but an individual item can only belong to one collection at a time.”

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Rights Considerations

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Am I allowed topublish the items?

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Open Lab Time

Workshop potential uses of Omeka

Let’s:

Check out sample sitesPlay with themes

Browse through pluginsAdd content

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Thanks!