Workshop Series: Building Digital Archives & Storytelling with CollectionBuilder -- Week 8 Building a Digital Archive using CollectionBuilder
Workshop Series: Building Digital Archives & Storytelling with CollectionBuilder -- Week 8 Building a Digital Archive using CollectionBuilder Online
Week 8: Building a Digital Archive using CollectionBuilder
This is the first workshop of the “Digital Collections & Storytelling with CollectionBuilder”. No experience is required.
During the first hour of this workshop, we will explore what CollectionBuilder as a platform is good for — making digital collections publicly available online. You will learn how to make a free GitHub account and begin interacting with the digital collections platform. In the second hour of the workshop, you will learn how to upload digital collections into your CollectionBuilder site and gain experience with the very basics of working with metadata. By the end of the session, you will have a live digital collection available to show anyone in the world!
What do you need to know and do before the workshop?
- Workshop materials will be provided.
- You do not need to bring your own digital collections materials.
- No experience is required.
- This workshop will be remote and offered over Zoom.
About the Building Digital Archives & Storytelling with CollectionBuilder Workshop Series
In this 3-week workshop series you will learn how to create a website for a digital archive. Together with librarians you will gain experience presenting a digital collection using the freely available and open-source software, CollectionBuilder. The workshop series will cover web development and methodologies for working with digital resources like images and documents along with the annotations that give them context. You’ll learn the technical skills required to build a digital humanities project based in working with digital special collections and archival collections and telling interpretive stories with them.
This workshop series is appropriate for anyone who wants to learn to build their own digital humanities project that centers storytelling with digital collections, whether for a class or grant project. You should be comfortable learning new things, but no prior experience with web design and working with data is required. All attendees are encouraged to have a digital collections project idea before you join the workshop series. These workshops will be remote and offered over Zoom.
Registration is required for all workshops. Come learn how to build a digital collection for your digital humanities project. We’ll have a good time working with data and building a website!
This workshop series was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and developed in partnership with the University of Idaho Libraries.
