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Module Code: CI3130 Module Course: Culture and Heritage Informatics Written by: Husnain Mehmood Knumber: K1036928 Course: Information Systems KU email: K1036928@kingston.ac.uk Marker: Chris Hutchinson
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Brief synopsis
This project is going to describe how shisha has become so popular within the last 10 years and how people enjoy night outs at shisha lounges and in the comfort of their own homes when smoking shisha. To create this online management system, I will be using Omeka, to show people how popular shisha is and whether they would start smoking shisha as well. I will be using Omeka to create a picture gallery of different images of people who smoke shisha and what different flavours and designs of shisha that can be found. Also there will be online video of people enjoying their shisha in different environments.
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Omeka
The platform used in this project is Omeka online management system. The reason for this is because Omeka will help me create a variety of collections of videos and images and help them be distributed to the worldwide web. Using Omeka will help me in the future to update or remove any data that I see fit. Omeka is the sole reason why students, Lecturers and librarians can demonstrate their findings by such ease and it is also appealing to the user and they can also be made in an eye-catching way. Omeka is able to handle big archives, which includes important things like metadata, different files and is able to store many different files like images, videos and audio recordings. Omeka will allow the inventors to create a following system that will feature content management, archive managements system and collection management. Omeka is easy to install because it will also allow a very good approach to metadata, will support other web standards such as CSS and XHTML.
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What were the difficulties and the opportunities of an online management system?
What the general challenges were of this project were explaining how Shisha has impacted in todays society in a positive manner meaning that no inaccurate information was provided to deceive any users who visited the site. All the information had to be correct and accurate. The information provided will correct and straight to the point by informing people who have not experienced what shisha is by those who regularly smoke it. Not much internet resources will be there because I have enough knowledge about shisha. Being able to do this project was a huge opportunity to me and the amount of attention that Shisha has been given is incredible because Shisha has gone from a
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Technical Walkthrough
Using Omeka online management system, it was easy to use because the templates and themes were already there and all I had to do was change them to the way that I wanted them to be and it helped me achieve what I wanted to have. I created a picture gallery, a video page and put some general information in about shisha.
Homepage
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Recent Items
On this page it shows the different shisha topics that I have previously stated on the report. You can click on shisha flavours, pineapple head shisha, coals on a shisha and shisha in different environments.
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This page demonstrates the different shisha flavours that you can get and how to combine the correct flavours to get that perfect smoke.
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Coals on shisha
Here on this page, you can see the different shisha coals that can be used and explanations have been given on Omeka and this report.
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This is my favourite part of the Omeka project. Explaining how important shisha is during different environments, whether they are in a lounge, at home or in the park. Shisha is for all places
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Future Development
I will look to add more videos and pictures about shisha but my main aspiration is to add audio and video interviews for people who to understand fully how much they enjoy doing shisha and to convince others to enjoy it if they havent already done so. I want to also create a small forum for users to interact with each other and to let them share their experiences with shisha and what they would recommend to others.
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