Omeka plugins are a great way to enhance your website. For my project investigating African American contributions to music history within Charlotte, I plan on using a myriad of plugins from the Omeka website. The GeoLocatoion is one of the plugins my project will incorporate . The Geolocation allows you to represent individual data . A tentative examination of the Charlotte Public Library Charlotte Music Archives suggest it would be a good ideal to place significant events, places, performances, and musical artist in the context of their visual geographical spaces within the community. The tool can also help accentuate the monographs of the various artists and stories on this subject matter. The Neatline is an additional unique plugin that I will use on this project. The Neatline plugin allow users to plot archives, objects, and concepts in space and time. Neatline Plugin will allow me to plot archival documents, narratives, texts, and multilayer pictures on interactive maps with timelines. This plugin would greatly benefit me in displaying my interpretive analysis of archival data. Highlighting significant dates, places and other miscellaneous data from the public library archives relating to African American contributions to Charlotte music history with visual data mapping, and linking their relevancy with other important events with the city are both key features the Geolaction and Neatline plugins will provide me on this project.
For further information on the utility of these plugins or to download them refer to the links listed below :Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Review of Hurricane Katrina Digital Memory Bank Website
For the second blog post I examined the Hurricane Katrina Digital Memory Bank website . This website purpose is to provide, “ electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the stories and digital records of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita..” The website allows readers to easily navigate through the information provided on the site. One of the unique features on the Hurricane Katrina Digital Memory Bank site is the ability for readers to contribute personal artifacts and special memories about these storms. Allowing readers to participate in the unfolding process of building the historical archives about these storms, is a unique feature of this site. Users of this site have open access to donate archival information about their experience of the storm through the website Dropbox plugin. The Dropbox plugin allow users to upload data and share their perspective of the tragic events of both of these horrific hurricanes that devastated many communities and cities along the Gulf Coast. The Dropbox plugin allow users to share their stories within three categories ( stories, audio or images). The additional ability to add descriptions to items along with specifying the source of the material is a bonus feature of the formatting of material within this cite. Historians and other academicians will love the citations which are listed under many of the archival documents on this site. Follow this link http://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/45904 to view citation example.
The site also is a very collaborative effort with other scholarly organization to promote the evolving public history archive on hurricane Katrina and Rita. The primary intellectual organization which provided the technical and scholarly guidance for the digital history project were Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and the University of New Orleans. For more information on this site please visit the Hurricane Katrina Digital Memory Bank website www.hurricanearchive.org/ .
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