Using Omeka.net for digital exhibits: Home
Use digital exhibits to support work in public history, digital humanities, present special collections and archives research and more!
Getting Started With Digital Exhibits
Why digital exhibits?
Benefits of digital exhibit work
- Learn how to present information on the web
- Learn how to make your own websites and additional skills like HTML markup. This can be valuable practice if you ever need to write for the web, or learn a Content Management System (CMS) for managing web content in the future
- How to shape your narrative to a particular digital tool
- Develop information for a broad audience
Examples
Library-centric exhibits
- Marriott Library Digital Exhibits, exhibits.lib.utah.edu
- Digital Public Library of America Exhibits, https://dp.la/exhibitions
- Utah State University Exhibits, http://exhibits.usu.edu/
Contemporary Public History
- Baltimore Uprising 2015, https://www.baltimoreuprising2015.org/
- New Roots/Nuevas Raíces, https://newroots.lib.unc.edu/
- A People's Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland, http://www.archivingpoliceviolence.org/
- Our Marathon (started as Omeka project, then transferred to another system), https://marathon.library.northeastern.edu/
Large Scale Interdisciplinary Historical Research
- Colored Conventions, http://coloredconventions.org/
Transcription projects:
- Virginia Memory, http://www.virginiamemory.com/transcribe/
Even more examples at Omeka showcase: https://omeka.org/classic/showcase/
Subject Guide
Digital Curation Librarian
