Link to the Omeka S database (backend)Resources:
This resource defines all of the custom vocabulary needed to create the metadata for an item and the template instructions to follow when creating an item on the LSL backend.
Guide on How to Finish an Item
This is a guide on how to upload images, add items to sites, add items to item sets, and map a physical memorial after you have used the data dictionary to create the metadata for your item.
This folder holds resources from our LSL pilot year (2022-2023) including syllabi, example project, a research form for students, and a google sheet to help streamline your data entry.
This page has all of the video tutorials that we created that walk you how to create a memorial item and a person item in the LSL omeka backend.
This page has all of the water cooler notes from our monthly meetings.
Check here for the detailed change lists on the items that you have added to the database.
2023-2024 Item Review (January)
2022-2023 Item Review (January and June)
An objective of the Locating Slavery’s Legacies database (LSLdb) is to collect information about monuments and memorials identified with the Civil War and Confederacy on the campuses of American colleges. This information will help us analyze and understand the impact of Lost Cause movements on higher education in the United States in the 160 years after emancipation. The LSLdb works on a model of inter-institutional collaboration: students and faculty who join the database project investigate such memorials on their respective campuses and enter the information on the LSLdb website using agreed-upon standards and practices. What results, we hope, is a centralized resource yielding insight into the history of the Lost Cause at individual colleges while also allowing comparative analysis of Confederate memorialization as a larger social and cultural movement that shaped teaching and learning on campuses across the southern region and beyond.
The LSL database is sponsored and led by the Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. It was constructed in collaboration with the design team of Omeka, the world’s leading developer of web-publishing resources supporting the digital humanities. The database project is made possible by a Legacies of American Slavery grant from the Council of Independent Colleges and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University’s MacMillan Center.
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