How can the digital humanities facilitate more direct engagement between academic researchers, students, and public audiences? At Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive, where I am currently Co-Director, we decided very early on that active public participation was integral to the success of the project. In addition to public engagement, we also wanted to create a digital archive that included robust metadata (or information about each of our objects) that would aid future researchers who wanted… Building Digital Exhibits in the Classroom with Omeka and Neatline