Portfolio Activity 2: Create Two Items with Complete Metadata in Your Omeka.net Site

Item creation and description of my two primary sources did not have many hiccups. My two items were images, so I had almost no text to analyze. One of my sources, “Leap of the Fugitive Slave,” was unclear on what the fugitive enslaved woman was jumping off and what she was jumping into. Since it was a jump towards certain death, I concluded that she was jumping off a bridge into a body of water. Other than this small detail, the process of creating a description was simple. My other item, “Effects of Fugitive Slave Law,” had quotes from the Bible and the Declaration of Independence that added some intrigue to the source, so I chose to use it for my item. Annotating sources for a public audience definitely made me think a bit more about how I should be annotating. I think it made me more thoughtful and more analytical regarding my annotating. I feel that I got a lot more out of my annotations than I normally would, so I think I will try to capture the mindset I had during annotating and try to apply that to all of my annotations from now on. The items and exhibits that I have seem from my classmates have been interesting to read.