9/14/25
This week for my behind the scenes Vivero work, I returned to some training on the website/database host Omeka. I followed along though the training from last year and then followed along the Omeka, Part 2. training for a bit more work. Most of the stuff I’ve come to pick up a little bit through my project work on Virtual Tithead, but nonetheless it was helpful and relevant to my project to go back. Something that I am thinking about for this year is how best to display the kind of information on the kind of site we want for the Virtual Tithead Project. As of now, we have information stored on an Omeka site, but it isn’t exactly what we’d like it to look like, nor exactly the information we’d like displayed. I wanted to go back through this Omeka training to see if there were more pointers for site customization or if it was possible to have a bit of a sleeker-looking website, but I was unable to find anything in the trainings on deep customization, that is, without learning HTML, potentially complex HTML, to make it work. I think my feedback for the training would be to bulk out the site customization a bit, in addition to the training on how to create exhibits and add items. That being said, I’m still not sure if Omeka is exactly the right way to go with our project, and as my project lead and I discussed last year, we may play around with different options.