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BUILD A DIGITAL EXHIBITION USING OMEKA – A METHOD TO TEACH MEDIA DIGITAL FUTURE SPECIALISTS
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Omeka is an application that allows publishing digital collections. Dublin Core vocabulary is structured based on an abstract model. Understanding these elements lead to a good description of digital collection and it is possible to organise digital exhibitions. Students from Digital Media specialization at the Transilvania University of Bra?ov, Romania, attended the course Management of Digital Repository. During this course, the students had to make a digital exhibition using OMEKA software. At the end of the course, qualitative research was carried out on the opinions and opportunities offered by OMEKA software and studentsВ’ appreciation on the ease of understanding practically how a digital library is made. The research was performed using the Survey-Monkey, the research tool was the questionnaire, sent by email to the group of students, 13 questions were used. All students were invited to respond. 31 responses were obtained. The greatest interest in the topics addressed were: the use of web technologies -74.19%, OMEKA - 51.61%, software packages with which to make digital deposits and intellectual property elements - 45.16%, standards of the description of information - 29.03%, digital deposits - 16.13%. Using OMEKA software in the teaching process helps to optimize the pedagogical method Problem Based Learning, students reflected on the practical application, how to make a digital exhibition of a personal collection or organizing an exhibition using open-access resources. To integrate all these notions: web standards, APIs, open data, creative licenses, the method of using OMEKA software was a real success. The method can be taken into consideration and can be used successfully in any course on Management of Digital Repositories.
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