Here’s a link to the notes from the session — feel free to add to them. They are also embedded below. docs.google.com/document/d/1t2IfZwLEd536hCzE-vFXi0X0uB_7h8oa6b5WOqcou3U/pub

If anyone wants to learn the basics of Omeka, I’m happy to teach a workshop on it — I’ve done so many times. Here’s a sample (incomplete) Omeka site called “Colonial Jewish Newport,” and here’s a more advanced and complete site built with Omeka called “Jewish Life in Mr. Lincoln’s City.”

Here’s a description of said workshop:

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Building Scholarly Online Archives with Omeka

These days, any scholar or organization is almost certain to have a collection of digital material from research and teaching: scanned texts, digital images, original syllabi, even historic songs, oral histories, or digital video. Omeka is a simple, free system built by and for scholars and cultural heritage professionals that will help you publish and interpret such digital material online in a scholarly way so that it’s available for researchers, students, and the public in a searchable online database integrated with attractive online essays and exhibits. In this introduction to Omeka, we’ll look at a few of the many examples of Omeka websites built by archives, libraries, museums, and individual scholars and teachers; define some key terms and concepts related to Omeka; learn about the Dublin Core metadata standard for describing digital objects; and go over the difference between the hosted version of Omeka at omeka.net and the self-hosted version of Omeka at omeka.org. Participants will also learn to use Omeka themselves through hands-on exercises, so please *bring a laptop* (not an iPad).