Omeka Demo

Pages > Digital Assets

You can add one or more digital assets - still image, audio, video, or a document in pdf format - to your page. Omeka refers to the assets as Items and these are the assets that you described and uploaded in the Items section of the Dashboard.

You can add an Item to any of the Content Blocks except for Text. To add an item:

Select and add a Content Block

1. Click on Add Item in the Items section of the chosen Content Block.

2. To locate your item click on View All Items and navigate to your item or click on Show Search Form and perform a search.  Instructions on searching can be found in section 3 below.

 

3. To search:
Click on Show Search Form (see figure 2 above).
On the Search Form enter information in any of the relevant search fields.
Scroll down and click on the green Search for items button.

4. Click on your item (in this case it is the Skeleton marionette).
Click on Select Item.

5. Supply and format a caption in the box provided (this is optional).
Click on the green Apply button.

6. The item is now "published" to your exhibition. You can add more items if you wish.

Libraries Digital Program Division / Butler Library / 535 West 114th St. / New York, NY 10027 / ldpd@libraries.cul.columbia.edu