Examples of DH projects that use Omeka

The links below offer a range of sites, from a variety of disciplines, that use Omeka to curate a collection or tell a story.

This site, Frost on Chickens, uses Omeka to prepare a handful of exhibits on Robert Frost's life as a chicken farmer and his writings on poultry.

This site, Roger Hayward: Renaissance Man, uses Omeka in a more linear and narrative way, telling a story about its subject.

A mostly visual catalog of senior art projects by students at Lewis and Clark College.

A site on the Boston Marathon bombing created by students at Northeastern University.

A variety of digital collections from Special Collections at Smith College's Library.

The Travel Letters of Mrs. Kindersley combines transcriptions of original letters from this 18th-century traveler with maps of her locations in India, Brazil, etc.

A digital history project for the City of Wooster that includes interactive maps, photos, documents, etc.

Mapping Emotions in Victorian London

We're hoping to locate and post examples of digital humanities projects and take note of the computing tools they use in order to get a better sense of what's possible, how it's possible, and what we might be interested in learning more about and pursuing. Here's an example of a historical mapping project that uses Victorian literary texts:

The Stanford Literary Lab has a new digital humanities mapping project called Mapping Emotions in Victorian London. There is also a recent write-up on the project in the New York Times.