Creating Digital Exhibits for Cultural Institutions by Emily MarshCreating Digital Exhibits for Cultural Institutions will show you how to create digital exhibits and experiences for your users that will be informative, accessible and engaging. Illustrated with real-world examples of digital exhibits from a range of GLAMs, the book addresses the many analytical aspects and practical considerations involved in the creation of such exhibits. It will support you as you go about: analyzing content to find hidden themes, applying principles from the museum exhibit literature, placing your content within internal and external information ecosystems, selecting exhibit software, and finding ways to recognize and use your own creativity. Demonstrating that an exhibit provides a useful and creative connecting point where your content, your organization, and your audience can meet, the book also demonstrates that such exhibits can provide a way to revisit difficult and painful material in a way that includes frank and enlightened analyses of issues such as racism, colonialism, sexism, class, and LGBTQI+ issues. Creating Digital Exhibits for Cultural Institutions is an essential resource for librarians, archivists, and other cultural heritage professionals who want to promote their institution's digital content to the widest possible audience. Academics and students working in the fields of library and information science, museum studies and digital humanities will also find much to interest them within the pages of this book.
CollectionBuilderCollectionBuilder is an open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that are driven by metadata and powered by modern static web technology.
CuratescapeCuratescape is a web and mobile app framework for publishing location-based content using the Omeka content management system.
MukurtuMukurtu (MOOK-oo-too) is a grassroots project aiming to empower communities to manage, share, narrate, and exchange their digital heritage in culturally relevant and ethically-minded ways. We are committed to maintaining an open, community-driven approach to Mukurtu’s continued development. Our first priority is to help build a platform that fosters relationships of respect and trust.
Omeka Classic, Omeka S, Omeka.netOpen-source web publishing platforms for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits.
ScalarScalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required.
WAXJekyll based framework for minimal exhibitions with IIIF
Workshops: OmekaWhether you are new to Omeka or an experienced user, Omeka’s new intensive course offerings hold something for everyone. Participants will benefit from the knowledge and experience of a member of the Omeka team.
Each student will gain an understanding of the core capacities of the platform under study, and the best ways to leverage add-ons to extend the software’s functionality and to achieve key project goals. Sessions will address important issues such as designing for community engagement, building sophisticated interpretation that makes the most of digital collections.
Perfect for digital scholarship librarians, project managers, and instructors, each eight-week, online course is designed to provide participants with a deep understanding of the Omeka platform infrastructure, of key approaches to planning sophisticated projects, of the techniques for building accessible, well-structured sites that take advantage of Omeka’s many functional add-ons. After completing a full course curriculum, each participant will recieve a certification of their acheivement.
Tutorial: Installing OmekaJonathan Reeve
From The Programming Historian: "This lesson will teach you how to install your own copy of Omeka."
Tutorial: Up and Running with Omeka.netMiriam Posner
From The Programming Historian: "Omeka.net makes it easy to create websites that show off collections of items."
Tutorial: Creating an Omeka ExhibitMiriam Posner and Megan R. Brett
From The Programming Historian: "Now that you’ve added items to your Omeka site and grouped them into collections, you’re ready for the next step: taking your users on a guided tour through the items you’ve collected."
Tutorials: Omeka SugarJeremy Guillette
"Serving up spoonfuls of knowledge to make work with Omeka go smoothly."
Tutorials: Omeka GymAlexandra Bolintineanu
"This learning track features Omeka tutorials. By the end of this learning track, participants will know how to build an Omeka site for a digital collection and how to map that collection in space and time using Neatline."
