William Cowan – THATCamp Oral History Association 2012 http://oha2012.thatcamp.org The Humanities and Technology Camp Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:38:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 What is Omeka and how can I use it? http://oha2012.thatcamp.org/10/12/what-is-omeka-and-how-can-i-use-it/ http://oha2012.thatcamp.org/10/12/what-is-omeka-and-how-can-i-use-it/#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:25:23 +0000 http://oha2012.thatcamp.org/?p=325 Continue reading ]]>

According to the Omeka web site:

Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Its “five-minute setup” makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog.

So, does that mean I can use it for my projects?

I plan to do an overview of Omeka, what you need to install it, how you can use it, how you can create web sites.

Omeka is widely used in the digital humanities. Come and see if it can work for you.

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How to use digital video with Omeka http://oha2012.thatcamp.org/10/02/how-to-use-digital-video-with-omeka/ http://oha2012.thatcamp.org/10/02/how-to-use-digital-video-with-omeka/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:38:31 +0000 http://oha2012.thatcamp.org/?p=208 Continue reading ]]>

I believe that playing back digital video on the web presents a special set issues for scholars, content managers and technologists that are not often addressed in commercial products and on websites, such as YouTube, that focus primarily on entertainment not education, research or public exhibits. Using digital video in these areas requires the ability to segment videos, provide voice or text based annotation and the presentation of the segments in the context of the original video as well as the ability to present video segments and annotation with other related videos. In addition, since much of this work is done in the context of a library, museum or other public facility or project, and often requires some search and discovery of the video segments, the ability to collect and present metadata about each segment is important as well.  In relation to work that I have done on a plugin and themes that allow the loading and playback of videos and video segments into Omeka, I would like to discuss the current state of video segment playback and some of the choices that have to be made when playing back video on the web.

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