6/8 March: Building the Pieces

REMINDER NO CLASS TODAY, 8 MARCH.  WORK ON YOUR PROPOSALS. WE WILL WORK ON OMEKA WHEN WE RETURN FROM SPRING BREAK! I WILL UPDATE THE SCHEDULE TO REFLECT THIS CHANGE SHORTLY

Before class:

• Read: What is Omeka.net?
• Omeka.net Documentation
• Miriam Posner, Up and Running with Omeka, The Programming Historian (2013).
• Explore Dublin Core, “Metadata Basics.”
• Miriam Posner, “Creating an Omeka.net Exhibit,” The Programming Historian, 2
• Steven Krug, “How We Really Use the Web,” Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (2005, 2nd Edition).

During class:

• Thinglink
• Feedly
• Common Craft, “RSS in Plain English” (2007).
• Sample Omeka exhibits that we will discuss in class: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Sources that I will/may use in the class demonstration:
  • Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
  • Virginia Tech 2007
  • A directory of the Sacramento Ave. M. E. Church of Chicago, Illinois
  • City of Boston Archive
  • Paper of William Faulkner, 1929-1965
  • The Books of Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Harlem Congress on Racial Equality
  • Greenwich Village History
  • Host to the World: The Waldorf Astoria Digital Archive
  • Carnets géologiques de Philippe Glangeaud
  • Frances Henshaw’s Book of Penmanship – Inventing the Map
  • Europeana
    • Art Nouveau
  • Search of the DPLA
    • Indomitable Spirits: Prohibition in the United States
  • Robert & Monnoyer: French Botanical Artists of the 17th Century
  • The Appalachian Dulcimer Archive
• Create an HTML page from scratch
  • On Mac, how to open HTML in plain text: Open TextEdit, open Preferences, click Opena and Save, click Display HTML files as HTML code.
• Sign up for an Omeka.net site.
• Install the SimplePages plugin and create an about page.
• Create metadata. Select two/three primary sources to add to your repository. Fully describe your primary sources using Dublin Core metadata and Item Type metadata. Draft notes for a Blog Entry about your organizational decisions.
• Work on your proposal.You should use Google Docs to write your project proposal, which is due by 11:59PM, Friday, 10 March. Should this deadline time be a problem, talk to me during hands-on work in class.
  • Your project proposal should address three key components:
    1. Your research question: “I am studying ______, because I want to find out who/how/why _______, in order to understand how/why/what ______.” (1 point)
    2. The main primary sources (and subsequent repositories where the sources come from) that you plan to use to complete your project. Please include a brief description of each source or collection of sources so that I have a good idea of what you plan to use as the basis for your historical analysis. Please completely cite all sources and include the website, collection, or archives where each is located. (2 points)
    3. The 4-6 best secondary sources available on your project topic. You should offer a discussion of these sources, their arguments and their importance to informing your analysis going forward. Don’t forget to offer a full bibliographical citation for each source. (2 points)

After class:

• Anything that you want me to know?
• Feedly….ThingLink…Zotero….hmm? were you in class????
• You should use Google Docs to write your project proposal. Once completed, please share it with my gmail address: gretchen.e.burgess at gmail.com. These proposals will be graded and are worth five points.

[IT Requirement: 2 and 4]