Welcome to the University of Victoria's Omeka-S exhibition platform. This library-managed resource provides faculty and students a way to tell stories around library collections for a wider community beyond the classroom--it's experiential learning at its best.
Those involved with this type of public scholarship and engagement learn the following skills:
- Digital preservation
- Metadata standards for description
- Object biography
- Image editing
- Collaborative writing
- Storytelling & narrative frameworks
Digital Exhibits offer a way for faculty to offer hands-on learning in the library as well as offer students skillsets beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries. Exhibit building tends to be a collaborative enterprise, so the process also teaches cooperation, project management skills, and digital curation abilities.
Omeka S is a powerful way for you to connect with objects, the community of practice, as well as the wider public. Welcome!
Featured Exhibits
An exhibition and Colloquium celebrating the 102nd year of the Bauhaus School
An exhibit analyzing Vernon Lee's "Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady" (1896) and its context in *The Yellow Book*.
An online exhibit for the DHSI 2020 Conference & Colloquium virtual poster/demo session, featuring the work of this year's participants
An online poster and digital demonstration exhibit presented as part of DHSI 2021 – Online Edition Conference and Colloquium. Created by co-chairs Caroline Winter and Arun Jacob.
A description is coming soon
Sonja Pinto
A tutorial for using Omeka S
An exhibit created in February, 2022 by ENGL 310 Honours seminar students with Dr. Mary Elizabeth Leighton
The course website for GMST 410 x 585, Holocaust and Memory Studies taught by Dr. Helga Thorson in the Spring of 2021
A site created by the German and Slavic Studies Department class GMST 583/GMST410 during the Winter 2019 term.
A Crafting Communities Virtual Exhibition
Online exhibit supporting the in-Library exhibit of reproductions of important sources of Viking imagery, in conjunction with the annual Medieval Conference at the University of Victoria.