HIST 4350 - Narratives of World War II in the Pacific: Project Overview

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1. We are working with Omeka S a web publishing platform. See https://omeka.org/s/

• The library hosts multiple digital exhibits on one instance of this platform on its servers. We make the platform available to campus constituents like you to build their own digital exhibits. The Bell Library Exhibits landing page is here: https://library.tamucc.edu/exhibits/s/welcome/page/home

• Admin log in: https://library.tamucc.edu/exhibits/login

2. Right now the course site is unpublished. You need to log in to see the site content.

• See the user manual for more information about the Admin Dashboard: https://omeka.org/s/docs/user-manual/admin-dashboard/

3. User Privileges:

• See the user manual for more information about user privileges: https://omeka.org/s/docs/user-manual/admin/users/
• Student users start with Author privileges. If they require more privileges to complete project work, they will be granted those privileges.
• Authors can search, read, and create items, item sets, media, and site pages. Can only edit or delete content which the user has created. Search and read only privileges for vocabularies and sites. No privileges for modules
• Students are added as Editors of the HIST4350 site. You will be able to navigate throughout all our exhibit sites and items. You will only be able to edit pages in the HIST4350 site.

Site Pages

1. We will focus on building pages for individual sub topics and then decide how best to organize them later.
2. Each student will create a page to populate with research and curated items to illustrate that research.
3. Students will collaborate to create site-wide pages, for example Home and About.
4. See the user manual for more information about site pages: https://omeka.org/s/docs/user-manual/sites/site_pages/

Content Curation

1. Find an image

• See the library research guide to get started with online archives and digital collections: https://guides.library.tamucc.edu/c.php?g=884064&p=6352597

2. Rights Assessment

• See the library research guide about using copyrighted materials: https://guides.library.tamucc.edu/c.php?g=884064&p=6399032
• Research copyright
  • Is it Fair Use? Complete fair use assessment to find out!
  • Do you need permission?
  • Is it open?
    • Is it released under an open license?
    • Is it in the public domain?

3. Digital Object Management

• See the  user manual for more information about working with items in Omeka S: https://omeka.org/s/docs/user-manual/content/items/
• create metadata
  • HIST 4350 Metadata Template
  • What metadata elements should we use to describe these items?
  • add to item set
    • See the user manual for more information about item sets: https://omeka.org/s/docs/user-manual/content/item-sets/

4. Add the item to your page

Site Organization

1. Topics in chronological order. There are three students (and subtopics) assigned to each topic, but they are still working on solidifying their research topic.

• Occupation in China
• Korean Comfort Women
• Greater East Asia
• Pearl Harbor
• Japanese Internment
• Homeland
• Latinx in the Pacific
• Okinawa
• Hiroshima
• The Unresolved War

2. Navigation will reflect the organization of content in the site. Options for navigation…

• See the user manual for more information about site navigation: https://omeka.org/s/docs/user-manual/sites/site_navigation/
• a page for each topic with child sub topic pages
• pages for each subtopic under one home page.
• page naming standards…
  • page name for URL and Page Title.
  • no spaces in URL