Omeka is a web publishing platform used by archives, libraries, museums, and others to organize, describe, and display digital images, audio, videos, and texts. The websites are visually appealing (e.g. many themes feature responsive design) and allow you to create exhibits telling the story behind your items.

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to add images, audio, video, and text to your archive, how to arrange items into collections, and how to create exhibits. We’ll also go over the difference between Omeka.net and self-hosted Omeka sites, examples of pedagogical uses of Omeka, and discuss the Dublin Core metadata standard for describing digital objects.

In this introduction to Omeka, you’ll learn:

• how to add images, audio, video, and text to your archive
• how to arrange items into collections
• how to create exhibits
• how to change themes
• how to install plugins
• how to use the Dublin Core metadata standard for describing digital objects
• the difference between Omeka.net and self-hosted Omeka sites
• pedagogical uses of Omeka

The workshop will be held in a computer lab, but you are encouraged to bring your laptop.

We will be adding items to Omeka during the workshop. Please bring 3-5 digital items - they can be images, pdfs, and/or audiovisual files, and you can bring them on a jump drive or email them to yourself.