Week 13
In one of our last classes we were working in our Omeka accounts today. Omeka is the website we are using to build the website for our soldier. In today’s class we went step-by-step in how to best utilize Omeka’s functions and capabilities. We discussed in class how we first would choose to break our soldier’s story into sections and then subsequently proceeded to actually creating the digital sections on the Omeka website. These function will make navigating through the website easier for viewers because they can read and research certain specific aspects of each of our soldier’s lives now. We are required to have a minimum of three separate sections of our soldier’s life represented in our Omeka website.
For my soldier, Amos Phillips, I thought it would be best to divide the information I have collected on him into the following three sections: military service, life after the civil war, and a final section on his family. I chose these specific topics for my three sections because it is where I have the most wealth of information on Amos Phillips. Many other students in class chose to do a section on their soldier’s life before the civil war but since I don’t have very much information, other than that he was a farmer, I chose to discuss his family instead. There is solid information on his mother, father, and wife. Also, his military service was extensively recorded through muster rolls, medical records, and other sources. Then, I will finally conclude chronologically with his life after the civil war because I have records of his time spent after his service. He faced several medical troubles and I think that ending the project with his the date and information I have of his death will be the best full circle representation I can create.