As I am building my digital history exhibit within Omeka, I feel as if I am learning more about the tools available to me as I go. Similarly, I think that I am getting a better finalized idea of how I want the project to look. So far, I have the wireframe of my exhibit completely fleshed out except for some of the nested pages. I am also trying to decide if I want the “Community Services and Care” aspect as a “normal” page or a simple page. Currently, I think it makes the most sense as a simple page, but this may change as I come closer to completing the project.
The only real challenge I have faced so far within Omeka is trying to figure out how to personalize the home/hub page. I wish to insert an image and either a video or audio clip, but for some reason I can only figure out how to enter text. I believe I could bypass this issue with directly entering html and css code, or by another means. I would also like to change some of the coloring and font sizes on the hub page as well as within the “normal” pages. I think I can do this through the overall appearance tab on Omeka, but I have not looked too far into that either. I also want to figure out if Omeka has plugins for text-to-speech and color-blind color options, as this would make my exhibit more user friendly.
The page I have done the most work on so far is the “Discovering Alzheimer’s Disease” page. From my initial plan, I believe I am over halfway done with its presentation; I only plan on adding one and a half more blocks, and will most likely have a nested page as well. I am also looking for one more archived source for this page, however it has been incredibly hard to find. There is a very important journal that is well documented and known, however it was lost for almost 100 years. The journal’s original archive has proven to be incredibly hard to track down, or an image of it, though the contents have been well documented in text format. Similarly, it may be harder for me to try and find it because it was written in German and is most likely held within a German-language archive.
https://aemfindley.com/final_project_omeka/exhibits/show/historyofad