Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Omeka

The collection I chose to examine was Hero's and Villains: Silver Age Comics.  Out of the selection of Omeka collections this particular one looked fun and I wanted to know more about it.

The collection is broken down into six different tabs: About the Exhibit, Comics Timeline, Browse Exhibits, Browse Collections, Browse Items, and Resources.  About the Exhibit gives the viewer a small description as to why the collection happened and has a video to go with it.  Comics Timeline goes through the Golden Age, the Silver Age, the Bronze Age, and the Modern Age and tells us what was going on in the world and how it affected comics as well as when super heros made their first appearances.  The browsing options make it easier for a visitor to find what exactly they're looking on the site.

With this site you can search for your favorite superhero and find a list of comics they were in and discover a history of when they were created.  For example, when I looked up Iron Man, I found six different covers of Iron Man, each of which tells me the title, a description, the publisher, coverage, etc.

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