Unpacking History with Omeka
summary
During lockdown the State Library of Western Australia rebuilds several legacy education sites into a single Omeka S installation, producing a suite of curriculum‑aligned resources for Year Six and other classes. The work reuses a 2000 research site, adds richer Dublin Core metadata, a custom SLWA‑Trove resource template, geo‑maps via the Mapping module, an interactive timeline built with Timeline JS, and Trove imports using GLAM Workbench/Jupyter; the sites publish successfully but Omeka’s API and bulk upload prove flaky.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 0:17Molly Tebow
- 6:26Who Else Uses It
- 11:51Timeline
- 14:48Behind the Scenes
- 16:12Mapping Module
- 17:39Vocabularies
- 18:00Resource Templates
- 18:38Slwa Trove Resource
- 19:42Challenges
- 21:01Other Challenges
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