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Building Digital Exhibits and Digital Scholarship in Omeka-S: An Introduction

This tutorial outlines workflows for core digital content-building processes in Omeka-S.

Adding Metadata to an Item

Once an item has been uploaded to the Omeka site, the site creator can add metadata to describe the item uploaded.  Metadata refers to any information that describes an item added to an information system; adding metadata can make the item more searchable in a searching system and can help the user understand the context and meaning of the item uploaded.  Information about the creator of an item, the date created, subject terms, format, etc. are all common types of metadata added to digital collections in Omeka sites. This tutorial highlights the steps to add metadata to items uploaded to an Omeka site: https://bsu.libwizard.com/id/d1d0a7882964b87435299cfdd53c9307