You have received an email from the TCU Library Exhibits Administrator with a link and instructions for creating a password and activating your account. Your username is firstnamelastname. Once you have logged in, you will see your dashboard. You are ready to begin!
1. Click on the “Items” tab on the left-hand side.
2. Click the green “Add an item” button.
You will see a form for entering metadata about your image (See screenshots below.) This is where you will provide information about the items you are adding to the exhibit and, with any luck, you will be able to find this information in the catalog record. (Fun fact: Dublin Core is a common metadata schema used by information professionals)
3. Please fill in the following – Title, Description, Creator, Source, Publisher, Date, Contributor (if relevant).
Title: “Aubrey Beardsley at Mentone, in the room in which he died”
Description: Is the image of a certain page or of a detail of a larger image? (ex. “Frontispiece of Under the Hill, London: John Lane, 1904.”
Creator: For most of you this will be the name of the artist, “Aubrey Beardsley.” In the case of this example, it is the name of the photographer, “Monsieur Abel.”
Source: All of you will put, “Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library, Texas Christian University.” Some of you will put “The William Luther Lewis Collection,” followed by the above. You can find out whether this applies to you by checking the call number. If the call number begins with "Lewis," it is part of the WLL collection. (You can find the call number by looking your item up in the library catalog.)
Publisher: “John Lane”
Date: “1904”
Format: You all have tifs and jpegs at this point. The tifs are high-resolution images suitable for publication. Omeka requires jpegs, so you will be using the smaller jpeg file.
Contributor: This field will be useful if your image has appeared in multiple resources. In this case, the digital image is taken from the book published by John Lane, but the original image was published by Leonard Smithers. This field may not be relevant to you.
Feel free to add more information if it seems relevant to your source.
4. From the “Collection” drop-down on the right-hand side, select “Aubrey Beardsley”
5. Once metadata is filled out, click on the “Files” tab and upload your file. Be sure to use the smaller jpeg file.
Now you're ready to build the exhibit!
1. Click on the "Exhibits" tab on the left-hand side.
2. Find the Aubrey Beardsley exhibit and click on the blue "Edit" link.
3. Scroll to the bottom of the screen. I have already provided some basic structure to the exhibit by adding three pages. The exhibit and all three pages have placeholder titles (Introduction, Case 1, Case 2). Instead of "Introduction," you will enter the title of the exhibit. Your exhibit introduction along with an image you select as a class will go on the Introduction page. You will need to decide how to group your images. (If you have want more than two groups, we will add more pages.) We will rename the pages to bring out the theme of each group.
Underneath "Pages" click on the page where you want your image to appear.
4. Click "Add Item" and select your image from the list. For the caption, provide a "tombstone" for your item, including creator, title, and publisher. Copy and paste your headnote in the text field. For the layout, choose "File with Text." Be sure to hit "Save."
Congratulations! You have built an on-line exhibit! Be sure to navigate back to the exhibit metadata (choose "Exhibits" tab on the left-hand side) and add your name to the Credits field. As a class, add a brief description of the exhibit in the description field as well as any tags that might help users find it.
