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A Discussion on Using Omeka Classic for Preparing and Publishing a Digital Edition
September 27, 2022 All day
Hosts
elabs@virginia.edu
Center for Digital Editing
UVA Digital Publishing Cooperative
About the Event
Cathy Moran Hajo discusses the benefits of using Omeka Classic for preparing, managing, and publishing her digital edition. This recorded demonstration was given at a two-day hybrid mini-conference titled “Towards the Development of a Community for Digital Edition Publishing: A Forum for Discussing Metadata, Preservation, Digital Publication Tools, and Open Access.”
About the Presenter
Cathy Moran Hajo is a historian and scholarly editor. She currently serves as the editor/director of the Jane Addams Papers at Ramapo College of New Jersey, which is producing the Jane Addams Digital Edition and the Selected Papers of Jane Addams. For over twenty-five years she worked as the associate editor of the Margaret Sanger Papers at New York University, on a microfilm edition, a digital edition, and the Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger. She is the author of Birth Control on Main Street: Organizing Clinics in the United States, 1916-1939. She has experience in editing microfilm, print, and digital projects using databases and XML encoding. She has taught courses on digital history at Ramapo College, New York University and William Paterson University, and served for many years as faculty at the Institute for Editing Historical Documents and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. She is an active member of the Association for Documentary Editing, serving as President in 2008-2009 and is the vice president and archives director of the Mahwah Museum.
