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 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 site dedicated to the Spring 2020 GMST 581/GMST 410 Course.
A tutorial for using Omeka S
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.