ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors seek volunteers to author reviews for the October 2026 issue. To volunteer, choose a resource from the list below and complete our Reviewer Interest form (https://forms.gle/viaCJvMwFUydCN9S8) by Wednesday, July 29th.
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Submitted by ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors:
Matthew Garklavs
Bridget O’Keefe
Abigail Walker
Resources for Review:
We seek reviewers for the following resources. The snippets below are taken
from each resource’s web page and are not necessarily the opinions of the
M&T Reviews Co-Editors.
Americana
The John Carter Brown Library is at once a physical site and a digital space. Americana is the digital door to the library, named for the word chiseled in the limestone above the front door of the library’s 1904 building. The JCB’s collection of books, maps, prints and more, all focused on the early Americas, reside both in the building on George Street, at the corner of the campus green at Brown University, and in this digital location.
Aracne is a digital tool that facilitates the analysis of the canvases that artists used for their paintings. This software precisely and objectively characterises fabrics so that paintings can be compared and original formats and added layers studied.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals with Full Text
Produced in collaboration with the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals with Full Text contains full-text journal articles on architecture and design, covering subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design. (MTR editors can arrange for temporary access to this subscription-based resource).
The Black Architects Archive traces the impact of Black creative, intellectual, and physical labor on shaping the built environment, and does so by revealing both the breadth and depth of Black spatial practice in the Americas. It includes the work of Black architects, builders, contractors, engineers, landscape designers, draftsmen and women, mapmakers, and other built environment practitioners working across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The aim of the archive is to recover the historical impact that Black people have had on shaping the towns, cities, and landscapes of the Americas while also making this information publicly available as a resource for local history.
Design Card Decks for Ideation and Exploration
The Design Card Decks for Ideation and Exploration Web Archive is curated by librarians at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University, under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. Card decks are used in design fields as a game-based methodology for ideation and stakeholder participatory collaboration. The purposes of decks vary; some are used for brainstorming new products and services while others are scenario-based, prompting designers to consider how their products or services may be incorporated into different communities. They function both as a tool for design speculation and as a set of illustrations that visualize design thinking. This archive preserves websites associated with these decks; as design thinking becomes popular in many disciplines, from business to science, the potential user groups for these tools greatly expands outside traditional
design fields.
Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a growing consortium of North American institutions with collections of global premodern manuscripts. DS is dedicated to building an online national union catalog built on Linked Open Data technologies and practices for premodern manuscripts in US collections.
International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA)
IDEA is harnessing the power of Linked OpenData (LOD) to reassemble and re-contextualize archaeological informationrelated to Dura-Europos. Unique circumstances of preservation makeDura-Europos a rare archaeological resource. The city provides unparalleledglimpses into a multicultural religious life, the running of a militarygarrison, and domestic coexistence of different ethnic groups, and haspreserved hundreds of organic materials that survive in the archaeologicalrecord from few other places. But recognition as a singular resource forinformation about the ancient past has come at a price. Excavationsinvolving multiple institutional partners and well-intentioned efforts toshare-out access to physical objects from Dura has led to the dispersal ofthe site’s artifacts and other archival materials into collections acrossthe world. We’re using cutting-edge technology to power a new searchfeature for Dura-Europos archaeological data and archival content as ameans to mitigate this physical dispersal and improve access to informationacross disciplinary and linguistic silos for the (global) public good.
Odeuropa is a European research project which bundlesexpertise in sensory mining and olfactory heritage. We develop novelmethods to collect information about smell from (digital) text and imagecollections. Our goal is to show that critically engaging our sense ofsmell and our scent heritage is an important and a viable means forconnecting and promoting Europe’s tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
Reg-Arts : the register of enrolments at Beaux-Arts de Paris from 1813 to 1968
Created by threeinstitutions, the Beaux-Arts de Paris, the INHA and the CNRS, the Reg-Artsdatabase provides access to the Beaux-Arts de Paris enrolment registers of more than 12,000 student painters, sculptors and engravers between 1813 and1 968. Reg-Arts provides a central resource for art history, enabling researchers, descendants, museums and galleries to explore the data.
Remodeled Getty Provenance Index and Tracing Art interactive
https://www.getty.edu/research/provenance/https://www.getty.edu/tracingart/
Arches is a Getty-supported, open-source database platform hosting Getty Provenance Index records that have been transformed into linked open data resources. By treating Provenance Index records as a structured web of related resources, Arches enhances accessibility and discoverability, surfaces existing connections within Getty Provenance Index resources, enables linkages with other cultural heritage datasets, and provides powerful federated search and data visualization tools. These enhancements
make provenance research more efficient and adaptable to evolving scholarly needs.
The Trois Crayons Museum Forum is aninnovative, free-to-use digital platform dedicated to deepening theunderstanding of pre-modern drawings in public collections. Join a globalnetwork of art historians, curators, and enthusiasts to collaborativelyexchange ideas, discuss, and re-examine both familiar works and overlookedsheets – shedding new light on old questions and bringing lesser-seendrawings into focus.
VisColl is a system for building models of the physical collation of manuscripts, and then visualizing them in various ways. The core of VisColl is the data model, which defines the structure of individual manuscripts and which can be built and visualized by different tools.
Publishing in the Archives Profession 