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A lesson on metadata for Omeka collections. By the end of this lesson, participants will understand:what metadata means what Dublin Core means how to describe books, pages, photographs using basic Dublin Core how to interpret Dublin Core for the…

A sample assignment using Omeka to explore rare books through digital collections (needs customizing for individual curricula: this is a general-purpose assignment)

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…

A sample data set to create an initial set of Omeka items. Focuses on depictions of angels in BL Add. 42555. Before using this file, you must save it as .csv

In the Exercise spreadsheet attached, 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,…

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…

Create a new Collection in Omeka. Its title should be your last name. Then add an item to the Collection.

Take a look at the following manuscript image. Your task is to create a new Item in Omeka that represents this image. You get to decide how to map the metadata from the British Library catalogue entry onto Dublin Core. Then download the manuscript…

An introduction to Neatline. By the end of this tutorial, participants will know how to use Neatline to map digital collections in space and time onto a static image.