What Is a Digital Exhibit?
Students protest during George Wallace's visit to campus in 1963. From the digital exhibit Transforming Dartmouth: Oral Histories of Black Students from the 1960s and 1970s.
A digital exhibit is a curated selection of digital items with a theme or argument. Digital exhibits have explanatory text that contextualizes the items for the user. A digital exhibit is user-centered -- it prioritizes the user's understanding of and journey through the narrative and items.
Examples of Omeka-S digital exhibits by Dartmouth students:
- Transforming Dartmouth: Oral Histories of Black Students from the 1960s and 1970s -- Exhibits by students in History 10: Dartmouth Black Lives (Fall 2021) about the experiences of Black students who transformed Dartmouth in the 1960s and 1970s through their presence, their activism, and their community building.
- Asian American Student Activism at Dartmouth College -- Exhibit by students in Sociology 76: Race, Power, and Politics (Winter 2023) about the experiences of Asian and Asian American students who, through their community building, resistance, art and performances, and activism, need to be remembered by the institution.
- Greenland and Baffin Bay: Representations in Art and Told and Untold Histories of Greenlanders and Western Explorers -- Exhibit by students in Environmental Studies 15: Environmental Issues of the Earth’s Cold Regions (Spring 2023) about the history of selected western explorers from the 18th and 19th centuries, their interactions with Indigenous peoples, and the representation of the Arctic from this time period in art and photography.
Examples of Omeka-S exhibits at Dartmouth and other libraries:
- A History of Anatomical Donation at Dartmouth Medical School at the Dartmouth Library
- Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archive at the University of Utah Libraries
- All About The Count: The U. S. Census at Yale University Library