Introducing Omeka S: Community archiving using open-source digital archive display and management software

​Omeka S is an open-source, self-hostable digital archive display and management tool. In this workshop we will look at how Omeka S can be used by communities to manage, maintain, and contribute to their own digital archive.

​The workshop will:

• ​introduce participants to digital archiving in general

• ​discuss what metadata is and why it is important

• ​discuss how to setup your own Omeka S instance with accompanying documentation

• ​introduce and walk through a demo of Omeka S and its capabilities, including theming and the module ecosystem

• ​how to work with Omeka S together with the Internet Archive

• ​demo custom built modules for integrating with Internet Archive collections

• ​collaboratively sketch metadata structures

• ​collaboratively sketch features for a bespoke Omeka S instance

• ​expand the conceptual horizon of what digital archiving can mean

• ​provide resources for self study

​Participants will:

• ​learn the basics of Omeka S

• ​learn about the wider field of digital archiving

• ​contribute to shaping an instance of Omeka S for their own community archiving purposes

​This will be the first in a 2 part workshop focused on Omeka S. The first workshop will lay the foundation, through collaborative sketching of metadata structures and instance features, for the deployment of a bespoke Omeka S instance that participants will work with in workshop two.

​A guide for setting up your own instance of Omeka S will be provided before the workshop.

​This workshop is facilitated by c-host, a digital archivist, artist, and researcher. Learn more about their work here: https://c-host.site