Here are some more sample Neatline exhibits created by the talented folks at Scholars’ Lab at University of Virginia.ĭue to the interest in timelines, we also looked at Simile and Vérité, which allow you to make interactive timelines. Here’s a screenshot of the Neatline exhibit (admin side) with a map and timeline visualization (fairly barebones right now): One of the plugins that was really exciting to a number of people was Neatline, due to its capabilities to provide both geo-spatial and temporal visualizations. Here’s a screen shot of the Items section (admin side): Neatline) are not yet ready to go in the newest 2.0 version of Omeka. Data visualizations for this book, most notably the interactive maps, were created through a collaboration. We’re currently using Omeka 1.5.3 because some of the key plugins (i.e. Data and Maps by UConn MAGIC and Trinity College. Discussion ensued around building exhibits and collections, metadata standards, and other aspects, importing importing csv files into Omeka. The maps you see now include all the Connecticut maps (note that there are gaps in the routes our map collection is not absolutely complete), about all but a handful of the Rhode Island maps, and about 600 maps of central Massachusetts. One can be seen near the exit of the Ridgefield Library, and another hangs in. Currently we have 1710 maps from the entire collection of over 2400 available. Today we hosted our first Day of DH at UConn’s MAGIC in Babbidge Library and had a number of people from various disciplines stop by, look at, and discuss digital tools and platforms that could be applicable to their research or scholarly endeavors. Several people expressed an interest in Omeka an open-source web-publishing platform and were able to take a look “under-the-hood” at our current test instance of Omeka. The map shows the Berkshire Path, an old Indian highway that ran from.
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