Getting Started with Digital Humanities Guest Speaker(s): Jolanda-Pieta (Joey) van Arnhem from the Library Thursday, February 5th (3-4pm)
Addlestone Library, Room 120
Introduction to Augmented Reality and Interactive Print Guest Speaker(s): Jolanda-Pieta (Joey) van Arnhem from the Library Thursday, February 12 at 3pm
Addlestone Library, Room 120
Introduction to Omeka Digital Exhibit Builder Guest Speaker(s): Jolanda-Pieta (Joey) van Arnhem from the Library
Thursday, February 19 at 3pm
Addlestone Library, Room 120
Introduction to Augmented Reality and Interactive Print Guest Speaker(s): Jolanda-Pieta (Joey) van Arnhem from the Library
Thursday, February 26 at 3pm
Addlestone Library, Room 120
The Library has created new student tutorials for OAKS 10.3. Please feel free to share or embed these tutorials or our playlist in your classes. The tutorials are captioned and fully accessible for your students. Individual tutorials are available on the Library YouTube Channel, below you will see our newly created OAKS 10.3 Student Tutorials Playlist.
This tutorial demonstrates YouTube’s built in capabilities to caption videos easily by typing video transcripts directly into the YouTube interface and using the automatic timing feature. This tutorial was adapted from the YouTube Help Center available at http:support.google.com/youtube. Make sure to visit this site for additional tutorials.
Content provided from the Omeka About page. For more information, visit the Omeka website.
Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Its “five-minute setup” makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog.
Omeka is a Swahili word meaning to display or lay out wares; to speak out; to spread out; to unpack.
Omeka falls at a crossroads of Web Content Management, Collections Management, and Archival Digital Collections Systems:
Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation. It makes top-shelf design easy with a simple and flexible templating system. Its robust open-source developer and user communities underwrite Omeka’s stability and sustainability.
Until now, scholars and cultural heritage professionals looking to publish collections-based research and online exhibitions required either extensive technical skills or considerable funding for outside vendors. By making standards based, serious online publishing easy, Omeka puts the power and reach of the web in the hands of academics and cultural professionals themselves.
Funders
Omeka has received funding from the following federal agencies and private foundations:
Use Omeka to publish an essay or digital dissertation, share primary source collections, and collaborate with others in the creation of digital scholarship.
Use Omeka to share collections and build online exhibits with objects you cannot display in the museum. Invite your visitors to tag and mark items as favorites, or to contribute content. Start a blog to publish museum news and podcasts.
Use Omeka as the publishing tool to complement your online catalog or launch a digital exhibit.
Features and plugins you might like: Dublin Core metadata standards, W3C and 508 compliant, extensible and customizable item fields, RSS & Atom syndication, MyOmeka plugin, data migration tools: CSV Import, OAI-PMH Harvest, OAI-PMH Repository.
Use Omeka to build inquiry-based tasks for students, to create lesson plans with accompanying primary sources, or build learning modules with your team.
