Group Project Assignments (15% of final grade)
Summary
These assignments are intended to fulfill the course goal:
- Discover how to use digital projects to engage with multiple stakeholders and audiences and encourage conversations and collaborations
Collaboration is key to work in digital history. This semester, we will contribute to a campus memory project created in conjunction with colleagues in the Temple Public History program.
Platform
We’ll use Omeka S to create an interface for the project and the three (physical) sites of memory on Temple’s campus. Each student has been assigned an account to use Temple’s Omeka S instance, which is administered by the LCDSS.
Login to your Omeka S account here using the credentials assigned to you: https://lcdssgeo.com/omeka-s/login
- A Breakdown of Omeka S for Digital Exhibits from UC Santa Cruz
- Directory of Omeka S example sites
- A Quick Tour of Omeka S (video)
Resources
Any collaborative documents will be stored in the Campus Memory Project materials folder of our Shared Google Drive. Feel free to add stuff!
We’ll also be using Miro to wireframe and test out initial site layout/structure ideas. Those whiteboards can be found in our DH@Temple2021 Miro team dashboard.
Content + Structure
- Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach by Beverly Serrell (available online through Temple Libraries)
This book is a good guide to the general compositional organization of an exhibition (the focus is on physical exhibits, but many of the same principles apply to digital ones). Especially helpful are: “Chapter 3 – Types of Interpretive Labels in Exhibitions,” “Chapter 7 – The Number of Words,” “Chapter 12 – Modalities,” “Chapter 13 – Making Words and Images Work Together,” and “Chapter 15 – Labels for Interpretive Exhibits.”
- “Digital Exhibitions: Concepts and Practices,” a technical leaflet developed by MARAC
- Hemingway + Readability Test, apps for checking clarity and conciseness of written copy
- Is it In the Public Domain? Flowchart by the University of California + Fair Use Evaluator for questions of copyright
Design + Accessibility
- Lorum Ipsum text generator, a tool for quickly creating placeholder texts for mockups (thanks, Claudia!)
- W3’s Alt Text Decision Tree, a handy guide to alt text for images on websites for accessibility
- WAVE Web Accessibility Tool, evaluation tools for accessible web content
- Always Up-To-Date Guide to Social Media Image Sizes
- Material Design + Color Review for checking visual accessibility (thanks to Claudia!)
- An Intro to Mobile-First Design
