Workshops

Introduction to Omeka

Saturday, 2/18
Instructor: Dr. Sheila Brennan
Prerequisites: Sign up for a free Basic account at omeka.net/signup

This session will introduce participants to Omeka, a web publishing system used by libraries, archives, museums, and universities for building and sharing digital collections and creating web exhibits. We will begin by viewing a variety of sites built in Omeka to illustrate its flexibility. We will then tour the administrative backend, choose and configure a design theme, and build a small digital archive using Dublin Core metatdata to describe items. We will build a simple exhibit with those items and explore Omeka’s enhanced functionality through its plugins.

Finally, we will discuss the differences between the hosted version of Omeka and the server-side version of Omeka and reasons for using both.

Details: This is a tutorial. Please bring a laptop or tablet, but we will not be installing Omeka during this session. If you do not already have an installation up and running, I recommend that you sign up for a free basic Omeka.net account, or use one of our demonstration sites during the session.

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Introduction to the “Handheld” Humanities

Saturday, 2/18
Instructor: Dr. Jay Clune
This workshop will explore applications of NextExitHistory™

NextExitHistory enables the creation and delivery of rich media content via dynamic or asynchronous download for GPS-aware mobile devices, such as smart phones, based upon geographic location.

The content contributor interface guides content contributors through a series of question prompts and modules to research, write, and produce information objects for the web and mobile environment–in the form of text, images, audio, and video affixed to points on a map.

NextExitHistory is open access with free mobile applications.

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Zotero 101

Sunday: 2/19
Instructor: Dr. Mark Howard Long

This workshop will introduce you to Zotero, the wonderful (and open sourced) program that can fill all of your bibliographic needs. We will cover a range of topics in our session, from basic functionality and building your bibliography, to working with Zotero in various Word processing programs, to the use of Zotero’s innovative proxy tool and the importance of metadata for your files. We will even look briefly at ways that you can augment your Zotero use with mobile devices.

Details: This is a tutorial so you should bring a laptop to work with so that you can create and/or tweak your actual Zotero account during the Workshop.