Our Omeka exhibit
Omeka is a a free and open source content management system designed to showcase digital collections. Students will be cataloguing cultural artifacts related to the research project theme (for example manuscripts, newspaper articles, images, etc.) These will then be added to the course Omeka site: Schafer 360°.
Working in teams, students will then develop and design a digital exhibit of their research. A variety of tools can be used to create an interactive exhibit, including TimelineJS, TimeMapper, and Omeka itself. These tools will be introduced in practical workshops throughout the semester.
Example Omeka sites
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Shakespeare in Canada: A Cultural Map These exhibits, built by ENG 4142 students at the University of Ottawa, are part of a larger project intended to systematically record and subsquently analyse the reception of Shakespeare in Canada, creating an online interactive cultural map of the presence of the Bard and the way in which his works have shaped -- and continue to shape -- Canadian culture. |
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Stitching History from the Holocaust This digital exhibit is the result of a successful university-community partnership, bringing together the UW-Milwaukee Libraries, the UW-Milwaukee Digital Humanities Lab, and the Jewish Museum Milwaukee. This digital exhibit creates a new context for the artifacts: one that provides evidence of Paul and Hedy Strnad’s experience and shares those remaining artifacts with the world. |
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Gothic Past: Visual Archive of Gothic Architecture and Sculpture in Ireland Gothic Past is an open-access resource for the study of Ireland’s medieval buildings. Images within the site are drawn from collections of visual material, in some cases, almost eighty years old that are held in the archives of TRIARC, the Irish Art Research Centre at Trinity College Dublin. The website is a collaborative project between staff in the History of Art Department and the Library of Trinity College Dublin and the Roy Rozenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. |
For more examples of Omeka sites, please see the Omeka Showcase.
Omeka help
Sarah Simpkin (GIS and Geography Librarian)
Morisset Library, Room 309 Phone: (613) 562-5800 ext. 3093
Cataloguing help
Roxanne Lafleur (Media Support Specialist), Morisset Library, Media Centre, Room 155, (613) 562-5800 ext. 3720
Resources
- Cataloguing GuideMore information about Omeka and how to describe items.
- Guide de catalogagePlus amples renseigments sur Omeka et comment décrire les unités (items).
