vralocal14: unpacking our wares: using omeka for virtual exhibits, hall
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OMEKA @ JHU.EDUMacie Hall
Senior Instructional Designer
Center for Educational Resources
Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University
Who is using
OMEKA @
JHU?
Sheridan
Libraries
and
Museums
Who is using
OMEKA @
JHU?
JHU
collaboration
with the Afro-
American
Newspaper
Archives
http://morgue.afro.com/AfroOmeka/
Who is using
OMEKA @
JHU?
Faculty
teaching
under-
graduate
courses:
History of
Science
Introduction to
digital and
visual literacy
skills
Finding images
Metadata and
data standards
Cataloguing
Copyright
and fair use
Who is using
OMEKA @
JHU?
Faculty
teaching
under-
graduate
courses:
Museums &
Society
JHU Collections Web
Mark Dion’s An Archaeology of
Knowledge, A Wunderkammer in
the Brody Learning Commons on
Johns Hopkins University’s
Homewood campus. Photos by Will Kirk.
JHU Collections Web
1) A site that would not only host student research
findings and teach digital literacy skills, but would
allow students to raise conceptual questions
important for the digital humanities
2) A site that would use the technical capacity of
Omeka to allow students to analyze and draw
connections among the objects being studied.
JHU Collections Web
“…a particularly difficult challenge was to determine how to link the metadata to tell the best story and reveal significant connections, which may be as much a conceptual challenge concerning the collection as it is a logistical one.”
Reid Szerba
Multimedia Designer
Center for Educational Resources
http://collectionsweb.jhu.edu/
Live Demo of JHU Collections Web
Please go to http://collectionsweb.jhu.edu/ and you can
follow along with the text below or feel free to explore!
Item Creation – Data Standards
Exhibits Template – Explore Page
Exhibits Template – Page Form
http://collectionsweb.jhu.edu/
Macie Hall
Center for Educational Resources
Johns Hopkins University