For my first Omeka item, I chose jewelry, a shawl pin of Aymara Indian people https://omekahist295.jenniferandrella.com/items/show/2
And for my next item I chose the text of The Bear Foot Legend of Iroquois, Onondaga people https://omekahist295.jenniferandrella.com/items/show/5
The process of item creation was fun and new, I enjoyed it. The text I chose did not have a date that says when it was written which was little bit frustrating. The shawl pin had some minor data missing, but overall the most important data was available.
While doing this project, I thought to myself how one decides which data is more important, and which is not. Precisely, how do we divide and is there a division at all between the importance of data, how do we decide which data is more important?
These are such interesting items! I especially like the intricacy of the design in the shawl pin from the early 20th century. The Bear Foot Legend is also a great find and I wonder about its significance. Although you’ve been able to find a lot of metadata information about these items, we would certainly need to do some additional research to learn about the historical/cultural context of these items as well as their importance. As you suggest in your blog post, metadata can tell us a lot about an item, but not everything.