Project 2: Digital Annotations In Omeka Technical Instructions for Creating Annotations

Technical Directions for Creating Annotations

*updated as of 2/26/2019

  1. Go to http://www.nunncenter.net/jewishkentucky/
  2. Click Omeka Login (which will take you to the admin side of things)
  3. If you prefer you can go directly to http://www.nunncenter.net/jewishkentucky/admin/
  4. (Remember, your user name is  whatever precedes the @symbol in the email you provided me)
  5. On the drop-down menu on the left-hand side click “Items” to add an item, then click “add an item” from the menu bar across the top (it should be first green button on the left).
  6. You will be taken to a series of fields that allow you to enter metadata about your item, but before you do that, first click “Item Type Metadata” and select an “Jewish Kentucky” the drop-down menu, you should be prompted with an “aknowledgement” field, enter your name in the acknowledgements.
  7. Next click “Files”, which will allow you to select and upload the digital file.
  8. Once you’ve uploaded the file and selected the “Item Type Metadata,” you will be prompted to fill in a number of fields to provide metadata about the item.  See list below. For a sample item that also provides additional information about how to fill-in the fields, see

http://www.nunncenter.net/jewishkentucky/admin/items/show/2

If you click “edit” it will show you the back-end of how to fill things in. DO NOT MESS with the information when you’re in editing mode, please 🙂

Metadata Guide for  Jewish Kentucky Omeka site
https://tinyurl.com/JKMetadata

Title (required)

  • The literal or descriptive title of the object- focus on what is important about the item
  • Formatting
    • Capitalize the first letter of each word in title 
    • Do not put a period at the end
    • Use a comma to separate each item
    • Use a comma to separate the description from the date
  • Should include other descriptive information that is helpful, like a date (especially when the date is alpha number, like “summer 2014”)

Subject (required)

  • The topic of the resource
  • Think of this as tags and/or keywords–use semi-colons to separate them

Description (required)

  • Additional descriptive information that is not captured in title
  • Include any other supplemental information or detail that you don’t know where else to put

Creator (required)

  • The entity responsible for the creation of the resource (author, photographer, who made the item)
  • Formatting
    • If a person, format as [Last name, First name]
    • Use any punctuation present in catalog record or controlled vocabulary

Source (required)

  • A related resource from which the described resource is derived
  • Think of this as a citation of where the item came from
  • Include the collection name, box information, and repository name (University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center)
  • Examples
    • University of Kentucky Yearbooks Collection, University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center
    • Temple Adath Israel Records (accession number), Box 4, Folder 1, University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center
    • Filson Club History Quarterly, vol. 69, no. 3

Publisher (optional)

  • Publisher of the item

Date (required)

  • Date item was created or published
  • Formatting
    • Yyyy-mm-dd
    • Yyyy-mm
    • Yyyy
    • If you don’t know the year but you know the month and day, include that in title but leave date blank
    • Leave blank if date is unknown or uncertain
    • Do not include non-numeric characters
    • Don’t worry about being very specific– year is just fine!

Format

  • The physical format medium of the original item; not the file format

Language (optional)

  • Language(s) used in the resource

Type (required)

  • Very basic format of the original item

Acknowledgement (required)

  • Credit the student(s) who selected the items and credited the metadata for the Omeka site
  • Formatting: Last name, First name

Leave these fields blank

  • Rights
  • Coverage

Examples