Continuing from last week, I worked on Omeka. I understand the difference between Exhibition and Collection in terms of the freedom you have in the content you create. In Exhibition, for example, you can create a post that has only your words, versus you create an item out of the material that you want to archive on Omeka. I am still not sure the exact difference between those two functions, so I hope I will learn as I use it. I feel pretty confident in navigating others through installation and using Omeka as part of their academic projects. I am really intrigued by the freedom we have in Exhibition function, and I will definitely explore further and seek for a way to incorporate in my personal project. Needing to fill out metadata, as a professional Gen-Zer, felt a little bit frustrating as the field sometime does not match perfectly.
For this week, I revisited what I know and do not know about ArcGIS. I have created a heat map and map with location dots before, and I created a new one to house my project to visit and record the Statue of Peace across the states funded by Harris English Grant and Fischlowitz Travel Fellowship. Using heat map was effective when tracing the cluster to analyze the politics in building war-time brothels. This time, each location and representation of the statue is significant rather than highlighting the clustering tendency. I changed the icon to represent the location to the red background with a white exclamation mark, and I did not like that because it does not visually convey the nature of statues that it is to commemorate war-time memories and survival rather than scares people away. I feel pretty confident in assisting others use ArcGIS and choose a proper map style for their purpose. I would like to explore how I can incorporate images and long texts without blocking accessibility.