Hello hello,
So I made a digital collection of doodles I did in class during my freshman year of college. In the description of each doodle I tried to situate the works relative to the critical tradition that has grown up around them while also respecting popular reception.
Ici: http://doodlezolot.omeka.net/
Andrew, artist, digital humanist, digital art human
What insight into metadata-defying “Zolot theory and criticism”! What platform/tool do you think would better capture “the unique vision of one of the century’s defining creators”?
A good question. There are certainly several drawbacks to the Omeka platform, as far as I can see. The main issue for a primarily visual collection is that the attached file is not given prominence in the entry for each Item. (There is also the annoying inclusion of [no text] for irrelevant metadata entries, which really clutters the entry—though I may have missed a way to not display them.)
I would have to assume there’s a similar tool to this one for arranging a primarily photographic/imagistic collection. Tumblr might be good, or any personal photo platform (Flickr?), but then you lose the detailed tagging you get on Omeka. A personal website, unless you’re a fairly sophisticated coder, probably wouldn’t be powerful enough to offer searching, tags, and the organizational structure of Omeka or other more data-oriented platforms. I’m thinking of museum websites and how they accomplish what they do online—I’m sure it’s proprietary/ad hoc/expensive.
IMMEDIATE EDIT: I found a way to not display empty elements. Hazzah! Still searching for a way to prioritize the file…