Use Case: Community Creators

Neatline for:

• Create exhibits to showcase topics of personal interest and study, which may be scholarly or not, but have a compelling spatial component to the story.

See other work by Community Creators:

• Mapping Waterville
• The Whiskey Rebellion: An Interactive Mapping Project
• Minard + Napoleon
• The Nicolay Copy of the Gettysburg Address
• A (Digital) Declaration of Independence

Steps for getting started:

1. Install Omeka by following the instructions in their Installation guide. For a list of Hosting Services, see here.
2. Add the Neatline plugin to your Omeka instance: Neatline Installation Guide. For Omeka’s full plugin installation guide, see here.
3. After installing Neatline, access the plugin by clicking on the “Neatline” tab on the left-hand navigation panel of the Omeka admin dashboard.
4. Create your first Neatline exhibit: Creating Exhibits.
5. See basics for managing Neatline exhibits: Managing Exhibits.
6. Build your Neatline exhibit content in the Neatline editor: Editor Overview.
7. Add records to your Neatline exhibit: Records Overview, Creating Neatline Records.
8. Publish your Neatline exhibit to your public Omeka site: Publishing Exhibits.

Optional Neatline Widgets

• Add a timeline to your exhibit using SIMILE Timeline: Working with SIMILE Timeline.
• Add waypoints to your exhibit: Working with Waypoints.
• Connect text with geography using NeatlineText: Working with NeatlineText.