Omeka Assignment

Omeka seems to be a good tool for creating collections, even though I haven't used any other similar system. The challenging part is cataloging the item with the Dublin Core metadata scheme. Without having a good understanding of Dublin Core, many of the fields don't make sense to me. I can see that most of the metadata doesn't pertain to the types of items in my collection (documents & websites) so I've left much of the metadata blank.

Metadata

Working with this blog is giving me some experience with metadata (tags) in some introductory way. I've also created a Flickr to work with tagging there too. I only had a few digital photos to upload from a previous trip to Cuba in 2004. I haven't labeled the photos or given them any tags yet. I was interested in Flickr after reading about it in the book Everything is Miscellaneous.

Follow the link below to view the photos.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/honestweightssquaredealings/

I plan on taking the Metadata class in the fall, along with Digital Libraries. I think taking those classes together might create some synergy.

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