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Owning Your Omeka Workshop Series

This how-to guide is meant to support anyone interested in setting up and maintaining their Omeka Classic website using Reclaim Hosting. It is ancillary resource for the "Owning Your Omeka" Workshop Series developed by Kate Thornhill and Franny Gaede

How to Use This Guide

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This guide supports anyone who is interested in hosting their own Omeka website using Reclaim Hosting. It was developed as ancillary material for the "Owning Your Omeka" Workshop Series offered by UO Libraries Digital Scholarship Services Department.

The Owning Your Omeka Workshop Series covers the following topics in a sequential order

  1. The basic of workings with Reclaim Hosting and FTP
  2. How to install and work with Omeka themes and plugins using Reclaim Hosting and FTP
  3. Getting to know Omeka themes and plugins and Curatescape, an Omeka mobile friendly theme built for storytelling using geospatial locations

Owning Your Omeka Workshop Series - Upcoming Dates

FALL 2019 DATES

Workshop 1: Getting Started with Reclaim Hosting

When is it happening? October 11th 1-3pm

What will be covered? - The basics of working with Reclaim Hosting and FTP

Knight Library - DREAM (Digital Research, Education, and Media) Lab


Workshop 2: Setting Up Your Own Omeka with Reclaim Hosting

When is it happening? October 18th 1-3pm

What will be covered? – How to install and work with Omeka themes and plugins using Reclaim Hosting and FTP

Knight Library - DREAM (Digital Research, Education, and Media) Lab


Workshop 3: Working with Omeka Classic & Curatescape

When is it happening? October 25th 1-3pm

What will be covered? – Getting to know Omeka themes and plugins & Curatescape, a mobile-friendly geospatial location storytelling theme, using Reclaim Hosting and FTP

Knight Library - DREAM (Digital Research, Education, and Media) Lab