Blog post week 3

During week 3 of Digital Humanities, I feel that I already have a better understanding of what this course is all about. This week, we focused on inputting information into our Omeka website for scrapbooking. We met as a class this week in the special collections center on the 6th floor of the library to engage in metadata through scrapbooking. We learned how to properly record and insert the information we had, whether it was just a picture or a postcard from a certain family. It was really cool and interesting to be able to understand how writers and researchers use metadata to find valuable, personal information. When creating your own item on Omeka, it is important to make sure that we follow the item level Metadata sheet that we were given. This was such a helpful tool and insight to guide us when recording our scrapbook images. We also learned on Wednesday the proper ways to write down our information from the scrapbook. On Omeka, we are given a whole bunch of categories to fill in about our scrapbook. Some of these categories include a title, subject, description, date, rights, and so much more. All of these elements are beneficial to creating metadata, especially for scrapbooking. I learned that being too vague in those descriptions can cause other readers and researchers to be confused and they may not be able to find what they are looking for. This is why it is important to take your time when inputting metadata. Overall, I learned a lot more this week about metadata and the general use of the Omeka website. I am excited to do more this upcoming week.