Click "Add a new item"
Complete the following fields in the Dublin Core tab:
- Title:
- Description: What is the image/resource about?
- Creator: Who is the author/photographer?
- Source: Where did you find the image/resource? Who took the original photo?
- Publisher: What website did you find the image/resource on? Is it a company or magazine that supplied the image/resource?
- Date: What is the creation or publication date of the image/resource?
- Rights: Either the Creative Commons License “CC BY-NC”, etc. OR “These images are for educational use only” goes here.
- Citations will also go in this field.
- “Citation: Last name, First name. Title. Date, Location of image/website, URL.”
- Leave the rest of the fields blank – they will not show on the item.
Click on the Item Type Metadata tab:
In the dropdown box, select the type of the uploaded file: still image, text, sound, or moving image
Click on the "Files" tab
Add your file to the Omeka site: (maximum file size is 128MB)
Use the "Choose File" button to select your image/video/sound file
Optional: click on the "Tags" tab
You can assign tag(s) to your item as a way to organize sets of materials. This is optional because the primary organizational method is to assign things to Collections.
Find the "Add Item" box
A simple way to organize sets of items is by assigning them to Collections. If have a collection already, select it here
Check "Public" (if you see it)
Click "Add Item"
Check your item
Click "Items" in the sidebar to look at your item and check the metadata
