*note these are a work in progress, last updated 4/9/2019
Update Technical Directions for Creating Omeka Exhibits
For your final exhibits, each of you is working on a different type of project.
Team One is working on Exhibit about Jewish Conversion, highlighting “audio scrapbook” –KS /strong>
Teams Two and Three—are each Developing Units for High School Teachers that Incorporate Oral History
Andrea and Andrea are working on a unit about Holocaust Literature (?) contextualized by oral history and
Andrew is working on a unit about humanizing Jewish Holocaust victims
Team Three Dalton is working on an exhibit about the way contemporary Jewish communities (in Lexington) memoriolize/commemorate the Shoah/Holocaust
To Get You Started
I went ahead and created an exhibit for each of your teams. You are not wedded to the titles I selected, but I wanted to give you a shell to modify.
Login to our Omeka site here http://www.nunncenter.net/jewishkentucky/admin/
| Teaching Holocaust Literature with Oral History(Private) | Current Public Theme | Apr 9, 2019 | |
| Teaching Holocaust History with Oral History(Private) | Current Public Theme | Apr 9, 2019 | |
| Commemorating the Shoah (Private) | Current Public Theme | Apr 9, 2019 |
| Rituals, Practices, and Paths to Jewish Conversion (Private) | Current Public Theme | Apr 9, 2019 |
Select Exhibits (from dropdown menu on left)
- Select the Exhibit title attributed to you by clicking on it
- To edit the title, click “edit”, you will be taken to a screen that looks like the one below.
- Generate some tags for the content that will be displayed in your exhibit, think of these as “keywords.” Note if you create tags for the exhibit, you’ll want at least one of them to appear in the tag field for each exhibit item.
- Choose a file for the exhibit thumbnail by clicking “Cover image”–>change and selecting your preferred “thumbnail” from the drop-down menu. This will become the image associated with your exhibit.
Exhibit Metadata
Title
Slug
No spaces or special characters allowed
Credits
Description
Tags
Theme
Current Public Theme Thanks, Roy Berlin Seasons
Use Summary Page?
Start the exhibit on the summary page. If unchecked, start on the first exhibit page if it exists.
Cover Image
Choose a file to represent this exhibit. The selected file will serve as the thumbnail for the exhibit.
Omeka will use the first attached file as the cover image.
Change
4) To Create pages in the exhibit, click the Green button on the bottom left ADD PAGE, you will see a page that looks like the one below.
Note, you can add multiple pages and multiple items to your exhibit. You can also add multiple items to a single page–if you select the “gallery layout”, which is probably what you want if you have a lot of images, you can have many images display on a single page.
Page Title
Menu Link Title
Optionally use a shorter title in the exhibit menu
Page Slug
No spaces or special characters allowed
Content
Collapse AllExpand All
To reorder blocks and items, click and drag them to the preferred location.
Block 1 (File with Text)
Items
Add Item THIS IS THE FIELD WHERE YOU SELECT AN ITEM TO INCLUDE IN THE EXHIBIT
Text
Paragraph
Layout Options
Block 2 (Gallery)
Items
Add Item
Text
Paragraph
Layout Options
New Block
Select layout
File with Text
Gallery
Text
Also, Please Remember:
Make sure that you have uploaded all of the following as part of your annotations in Omeka:
- Any headshots you took of the interviewee with whom you conducted your oral history interview with the appropriate metadata identifying the date taken, who took the photo, what format the file is submitted.
- Any images you collected from the person whose interview you indexed. Make sure you include the appropriate metadata.