Week 8 – we worked on our Release/consent forms for contributions and our logo. In preparation or our presentation and dissemination, I built our landing page on Commons: https://nyccommunityfridgearchive.commons.gc.cuny.edu

Having gained access to our Reclaim account, I set up an email for us, configured our account, and installed Omeka S on Reclaim (due to a misunderstanding on my part- I thought we were only able to install Omeka S, not Omeka Classic). Omeka S is similar to Omeka Classic but just not as sophisticated and has a completely different user interface than OClassic. While OC makes use of plugins, OS has modules – several of the plugins I had installed were not available as modules… In addition, the Collecting module, which replaces the Contributions plugin, for example, was not as functional as the latter. The interface was more similar to a library database (which requires a certain familiarity to navigate), whereas with Omeka Classic, the interface is just like any website – which means anyone who lands on the page can easily navigate it and not put off by the specific terminology/format of a library/catalog/archive/database. This may seem like yet another mishap, and in terms of all the  extra time and effort  I had to put into it, it somewhat is, but I did appreciate having learned more about Omeka through all this hands on experience. On a very positive note, I did figure out that we were in fact going to be able to install Omeka Classic on Reclaim.