About Digital Collections & Storytelling with CollectionBuilder
This repository contains lesson plans and materials for teaching a three-part workshop on creating Digital Collections using CollectionBuilder. These workshops incorporate the individual lesson plans on GitHub, HTML and Markdown developed as part of the Learn Static repository.
Digital Collections & Storytelling with CollectionBuilder
In this workshop series you will learn how to create a website displaying a digital collection using free, open-source software (CollectionBuilder). Faculty, researchers, students, and staff are welcome. This workshop series is appropriate for anyone who wants to learn to build their own website to display a digital collection, whether for a class, a grant, or a digital humanities project. You can also use this software to create a personal website showcasing your professional portfolio as an architect, designer, or artist. You should be comfortable learning new things, but no prior experience with web design is required.
We will begin by exploring what a digital collection is. We will help you set up an account on GitHub—the platform that will host our website for free—and show you a little bit about how interact with that platform. In the second hour of the workshop, you will learn to import sample data into a project. By the end of the session, you will have a live website!
Our sample project (demo version here) replicates an openly licensed digital exhibit, Yōkai Senjafuda, built by the University of Oregon Libraries and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
WORKSHOP RESOURCES
| Resource Type | Links & Materials |
|---|---|
| Instructor Materials | - Internet-connected computer, ideally with video camera. - Zoom account or other virtual meeting tool that has web conferencing features for chat, audio, and video. - Learn Static Workshop Pages - GitHub account - Google account for using Sheets |
| Learner Materials | - Internet-connected computer, ideally with video camera. - Zoom account or other virtual meeting tool that has web conferencing features for chat, audio, and video. - Email account for creating GitHub account during in the session. - Google account for using Sheets - Student Materials page - Week 1 Student Guide: Deploying CollectionBuilder on GitHub. This student guide builds on the generic Learn Static GitHub Module, and on this 2020 CollectionBuilder-GH Tutorial - Week 2 Student Guides: Understanding CollectionBuilder Pages and Using Markdown to Write and Edit CollectionBuilder Pages. This contents builds on our generic Learn Static Markdown Module - Week 3 Student Guide, Customizing your CollectionBuilder Project - Materials in the student_resources folder of this GitHub repository, which may be downloaded separately from the entire repository using this link generated via DownGit |