This is our class Omeka website. Omeka is a free and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archival, and scholarly collections and exhibitions.
Week 3 blog post assignment:
1. Dublin Core and Omeka Metadata -- Guide
2. Making Items and Exhibits -- Guide
Blog Post 3: Create two Omeka items (one visual-- a photo, object, painting, etc. and one text/document source) with complete metadata entered into Dublin Core. When you complete your two items, link the public-facing page for both items in a blog post on our WordPress website. Next, write about the sources you chose and the information available (or unavailable) about them. You may also reflect on the process of item creation. Next, carefully analyze your sources; what research questions might they raise? How does the Item-making process make you think differently about sources as the "building blocks" of history?
To help with your research, look at the sources & datasets page of the class website for a list of online archives and collections