Sample Assignment: Rare Books, Digital Collections
A sample assignment using Omeka to explore rare books through digital collections (needs customizing for individual curricula: this is a general-purpose assignment)
Alexandra Bolintineanu
William Robins
July-01-15
Sample Assignment: Word Study (Word in Context)
A sample assignment using Omeka to create a multimedia word study, in an undergraduate Old English course.
This assignment will require students to explore a word within an Old English literary passage, using the Dictionary of Old English and DOE Corpus, and then create an Omeka exhibit to showcase its depiction in material culture (750-1000 words; 4+-item Omeka exhibit; undergraduate/graduate).
Alexandra Bolintineanu
July-01-15
Resource: Sample Data Set (Angels)
<p>A sample data set to create an initial set of Omeka items. Focuses on depictions of angels in BL Add. 42555. <strong>Before using this file, you must save it as .csv</strong></p>
Alexandra Bolintineanu
July-01-15
Exercise 5: Wrangle Your Metadata
<p>In the <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/16466/archive/files/1c180cb653f619a418f3b4a2affa9e94.xls" target="_blank">Exercise spreadsheet attached</a>, you have a survey of angel images from BL Add. 42555. The spreadsheet contains several fields describing the images: Description by BL (from the British Library's catalogue), as well as Angel Hair, Angel Wings, Angel Halo, and Angel Accessories (descriptions of the specific angel figures). You want to place all this information elegantly in the Dublin Core description field. Use Excel (or your spreadsheet program of choice) to build the content of a new field, named DC:Description, that contains all this new content. Feel free to format this new field with HTML tags. Then save your spreadsheet once again as a csv file and import it into your site. See the <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/16466/archive/files/926408ccabbc39f953ef9b93fac3148f.xls?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI3ATG3OSQLO5HGKA&Expires=1438496625&Signature=%2BNZX55VKwMH0Fc8PHcfLHdVWp7g%3D" target="_blank">Solution spreadsheet</a> for guidance.</p>
Alexandra Bolintineanu
July-01-15
Exercise 4: Add Multiple Items
Adding items to Omeka one by one is laborious and error-prone. Using the CSV Import Plugin, add multiple items by saving the file attached to this exercise as .csv and then importing it. How will you map the column headings onto Dublin Core? If you wish, please refer to the screenshot provided.
Alexandra Bolintineanu
July-01-15
Exercise 3: Create a Collection
Create a new Collection in Omeka. Its title should be your last name. Then add an item to the Collection.
Alexandra Bolintineanu
July-01-15
Exercise 2: Add an Item
Take a look at the following <a href="http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=50171" target="_blank">manuscript image</a>. Your task is to create a new Item in Omeka that represents this image. You get to decide how to map the metadata from <a href="http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=6473&CollID=27&NStart=42130">the British Library catalogue entry</a> onto <a title="Dublin Core" href="http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/elements.shtml" target="_blank">Dublin Core</a>. Then download the manuscript image from the BL Catalogue (it is free from copyright restrictions) and attach it to the item. Please include your last name at the beginning of the item's title.
Alexandra Bolintineanu
July-01-15
Tutorial: Introduction to Omeka
An introduction to Omeka. By the end of this tutorial, participants will: understand the building blocks and basic affordances of Omeka as a content management system and data curation platform; Understand the basics of Dublin Core metadata schema; be able to add items (individually and in batch), enable plugins, and build exhibits; Be familiar with the data design challenges of creating a digital collection; and understand when Omeka is the right tool for the job.
Alexandra Bolintineanu
July-01-15