CollectionBuilder Digital Exhibit: Striking Form
Striking Form is a curated digital exhibit showcasing the personal, funny, and sometimes eyebrow-raising history of women & bowling in the US
About
CollectionBuilder (CB) is an open-source website tool that combines modern web technologies with structured metadata to build digital exhibits & collections. From January to April 2024, I joined nine other LIS students from across North America to work closely with the CB team at the University of Idaho's Center for Digital Learning and Inquiry to develop CollectionBuilder-CSV digital exhibits and share our learnings to the CB community.
Key Takeaways
Participating in this cohort greatly enriched my practical, technical knowledge of metadata management, static site generators, responsive web design, and GitHub & became a launchpad for me to learn more about web technologies. In fact, this portfolio is a static website I made using Eleventy & Bootstrap—which I felt comfortable building and deploying because of the hours of experience I gained by customizing my CollectionBuilder collection. Working with CollectionBuilder also enhanced my metadata management abilities.