Omeka instruction videos
Here are some demonstration videos on various Omeka site topics.
- Creating an Omeka Site and Theme Settings
- Creating an Item Set for your Site
- Building Pages: Using the HTML and Image Options Blocks to Create Text and Images
- How to Cite Resources with a Bibliography for your Research
- Creating and Organizing the Navigation on your Website
- Mapping & Timeline Module
- Commenting Module
First using Omeka
These first couple videos are essential for beginners of Omeka. You'll learn how to get started creating your own site and important steps to ensure your site building success.
Creating an Omeka Site and Theme Settings:
Logging in and creating your first site. In this video, we'll go over some important theme settings that will determine how your overall site will appear and function.
- Navigating Omeka and creating an account. (0:36s)
- Creating a new site. (1:20s)
- Theme settings: Customizing the look of your site and other layout options. (9:48s)
Creating an Item Set for your site:
It's absolutely essential to create an item set for your site's content and you'll find out why in this video.
- Making a new item set. (0:59s)
- Best practices for naming and managing your sets. (0:54s)
- Managing your site's item pool. (1:20s)
- Creating basic items. (2:05s)
- Adding items to your item sets so they show up on your site. (2:17s)
Building Your Site
These videos focus on building the content (text and images) within your site.
Building pages: Using the HTML and Image Options blocks to create text and images:
- Examples of displaying items in different ways on the page (1:57s)
- How to use the admin to display items on the page, beginning to use content blocks to structure your page (2:43s)
- Item display options, item title, captions; (1:49s)
- Using the Image options block to display items with mutliple display options, linking to other pages or the item level page. (8:09s)
How to cite resources with a bibliography for your research:
Creating and Organizing the Navigation on your website:
- Getting started editing the site navigation; nesting pages under pages. (8:44s)
- Click & drag to reorder pages; Using Custom URL as top level with nested pages. (2:48s)
- Privacy settings for pages and navigation. (2:16s)
Privacy Settings:
Omeka Modules (or plug-ins)
These next videos focus in on the different modules that are optional to use on your Omeka website. You can first discover what modules we have available by watching this module overview video and learn if any have a potential application for your project.
Mapping & Timeline Module:
Learn how to create an attractive and functional timeline with your content
- Organizing items for your timelines and maps: the importance of using resource templates and the correct data types to get your map working. (2:55s)
- Adding locations to your items to make sure they show up on the map; "map by query" versus "map by attachments" block . (3:32s)
- The different mapping options for appearance and to ensure your map works (3:15s)
- Newly added: How to customize WMS layers.
- How to troublshoot editing mapping markers (overlapping markers) and editing the map location. (2:50s)
Commenting Module:
Turning on the commenting feature can be a great way to introduce an interactive component to your site, by allowing classmates, colleagues, or the public to comment on images, documents or videos.
Folksonomy Module:
The Folksonomy Module is a tagging system, which your audience can contribute tags to an item. You may turn this feature on or off in your site's settings.
Universal Viewer Module:
There are two places in which you can use the Universal Viewer: on a selected page, or at the item level view.
Collecting Module:
The Collecting module involves making a customizable form in which you can use to collect data to create items from anyone (without requiring an Omeka account).