Digital Exhibitions involves digitally publishing content for a rich learning experience, across all disciplines. Different tools and platforms are used depending on your needs. For instance, we build and maintain the Omeka platform, which students and faculty alike can easily build their own custom pages and sites in order to present their research in a visually interesting and interactive way. There is also Digital Works, which is well suited for presenting and archiving student theses, poster presentations and more.
Storytelling:
In addition to writing a paper, using visuals adds another valuable level of engagement when it comes to presenting a narrative from your research and collected material. Those visuals can include image galleries, timelines, and maps which will bring that narrative to life.
Metadata:
It is important to organize your materials and describe them so that others can find and understand your work. Metadata ("data about data") can be fields like title, description, or date. These add meaning to your work, so you want to take some time to ensure that there is a way to express them. File names that are similar to one another can be hard to organize; items that have no titles can be hard to find. Metadata and good file naming help solve these problems.
Omeka Tools:
When creating a site in Omeka, you can use a variety of tools, or modules, to complete your narrative. We have written a help section here on how to use Omeka. We will be adding instructional videos also in the near future. The following is just a few examples of tools that you can use in Omeka.
