Digital Scholarship / Digital Humanities

Digital exhibits

• Upload files for curation and presentation of digital representations of physical objects, or born digital objects
• Can display student work or task students with gathering and curating online materials
• Collaborative effort to select, arrange, and describe objects
  • Think about what you want your exhibit to do and look like before you begin!
• Importance of planning and shared understanding of arrangement and descriptive processes
• Can illuminate connections between items using tags or organizational scheme

Examples

Omeka

Omeka.net is a free web platform hosted by George Mason University: https://www.omeka.net/

• Presentation platform for item-level description
• Create 1 site with 500 MB of storage using limited themes and plug-ins
• Multiple users can contribute to same website - levels of access allow instructor to oversee
• Learn more here: https://info.omeka.net/help/
• Self-hosted version omeka.org allows for unlimited plug-ins and themes with size limits depending on your server

Omeka.net tutorial videos

The following short videos describe creating an Omeka account and site, creating a collection, and adding items.