Making Digital Exhibits in Omeka: A Digital Humanities Collaborative Presentation

Kimon Keramidas, Head of Digital Content and Strategy at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York City

Making Digital Exhibits in Omeka: A Digital Humanities Collaborative Presentation

Are you looking for a new and painless way to engage your students with primary sources? Have them make digital exhibits. Join the DHC on Thursday, December 1 at 12:30 pm in Zoom for an introduction to Omeka, a free, open-source tool for building media-rich online digital displays of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections.

This presentation will be led by Kimon Keramidas, a cultural historian and leading figure in the field of digital humanities. Keramidas is Head of Digital Content and Strategy at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City. He co-curated the digital exhibition The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Roads, launched in 2019 for the Freer|Sackler Asian Art Galleries of the Smithsonian Institute. He is co-director of the Digital Humanities Research Center and Master's Program in Data, Culture, and Visualization, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2017, he was lead consultant of the Getty Foundation-funded platform development project Omeka for Art Historians.

For the Zoom link, contact Elissa Auerbach (elissa.auerbach@gcsu.edu), Faculty Coordinator of the Digital Humanities Collaborative.

Updated: 2022-11-29
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