OBAMA 2008 ELECTION EPHEMERA By Wendy Ball Attipoe

OBAMA 2008 ELECTION EPHEMERA By Wendy Ball – Attipoe LIS 654, February 5, 2012

Project Description • This digital library will feature ephemera from the 2008 campaign and election of Barack Obama. The items were created by individual craftsmen, artists, and designers for sale on Etsy. com from December 2008 – February 2009. The items reflect the attitudes and emotions in the popular culture surrounding this historic election. All items were purchased by Wendy Ball-Attipoe from their creators and are being donated by her for display on the Obama 2008 Election Ephemera Digital Library. • Potential Extensions: Down the road, incorporate and compare similar material generated by the 2012 campaign and election cycle.

Collections & Descriptions • There will be two collections: Campaign Buttons and Folk Art • Item Type: Omeka Item Type #6, Still Images; static visual representations of the items • 10 items will be featured in each collection • Descriptive Metadata: A description of each object such as woodcarving or fabric. The dimensions and physical size of the original image will also be included.

Campaign Buttons

Folk Art

Dublin Core Fields • Description: descriptive information about the object and its medium, • • • e. g. painting, quilt, metal button Subject: Describes topic of the resource, e. g. Campaign Slogan Creator: entity responsible for making the resource, e. g. artist or craftsman Publisher: entity responsible for making the resource available, e. g. the collector, Wendy Ball-Attipoe Source: the resource from which the described resource is derived, e. g. the Collector or website where originally obtained, e. g. Etsy. com Date: Period of time associated with the lifecycle of the item, when created; exhibited for sales on Etsy. com Format of representation: img, jpg, pdf etc.

Tags • Subject featured in each object: examples include Barack Obama, John Mc. Cain, Michelle Obama, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks • Creator’s name • Artistic Medium/material, e. g. quilt, wood etching, lithograph, poster

Plug-ins • Social Media Plug-ins: inserts a customizable list of social bookmarking sites below each item for sharing; given popular culture and visual nature of the library it is highly shareable