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ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors seek volunteers to author reviews for the December 2023 issue. To volunteer, choose a resource from the list below and complete our Reviewer Interest form (https://forms.gle/Cti3zShU96HLuHdc6) by Friday, September 29, 2023.       

 

Initial draft submissions are due Tuesday, October 31, 2023.

 

Contributing to ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews is a great opportunity to get involved with the Society and learn about interesting new resources. Please read the reviewer guidelines and direct comments and questions to [log in to unmask]. 

 

Know of a resource we should review? Submit ideas here. 

 

Submitted by ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors:

Karina Wratschko

Virginia Kerr

Matthew Garklavs

Abigail Walker

 

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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

 

All Light, Expanded

https://alllightexpanded.com/ 

All Light, Expanded is an interactive online companion that uncovers connections, research and ideas that inspired the documentary All Light, Everywhere which won a Special Jury Prize following its premiere at Sundance Film Festival and was released in theaters in June 2021, now streaming on Hulu. The website introduces a new medium to unpack cinema embedded in the language of the internet and the nonlinear ways audiences experience documentaries, research and the web. It features a custom interface that allows users to scrub through a thumbnail view of the film, alongside corresponding articles, quotes, links, and archival materials. 

 

Artists Studio Resources, a Research Guide

https://libguides.nypl.org/Artists-Studios-Resources

An extensive and in-depth list of resources covering various aspects of becoming a thriving artist and maintaining a sustainable studio practice. This LibGuide was built in conjunction with the popular online series "Artists Studios Community Series." Updated monthly with new resources, it provides practical and conceptual information including databases, open access resources, online projects, and websites. Launched on March 3, 2021;  as of June 8, 2023,  has been viewed over 50,000 times.

 

CARTA

https://carta.archive-it.org/ 

Supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Collaborative ART Archive (CARTA) community has successfully aligned effort across libraries large and small resulting in preservation of and access to 800 web-based art resources, organized into 8 collections (art criticism, art fairs and events, art galleries, art history and scholarship, artists websites, arts education, arts organizations, auction houses), totaling nearly 9 TBs of data with continued growth. All collections are preserved in perpetuity by the Internet Archive. On May 17, 2023 CARTA launched the CARTA portal – providing unified access to CARTA collections.

 

D-Craft

https://reuse.diglib.org/

D-CRAFT stands for “Digital Content Reuse Assessment Framework Toolkit. This toolkit helps you measure use and reuse of your digital objects. It can help you streamline the reuse assessment process and make it more efficient.

 

Designed by Women

https://designedbywomen.org/en/

Designed by Women, a website developed by the Stewart Program, focuses on designs by women across the globe. The world of industrial design has always been the purview of men, and the world of objects for the home has seemingly been divided into male creators and female consumers. With this website, leading voices in the design community challenge our assumptions about design by presenting pioneering designs by women from 1900 to the present. Through images, biographies, interviews, curatorial essays and object entries, Designed by Women provides insight into the remarkable careers and viewpoints of these designers. 

 

Lux

https://lux.collections.yale.edu/

Revealing the cultural heritage collections of Yale University to the world, LUX: Yale Collections Discovery provides a unified gateway to the holdings of Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries. This transformative service enables users to identify, access, and engage with items of interest within Yale’s physical and digital collections. It also uncovers relationships among items, inviting users to explore additional materials across collections.

 

Mapping Philippine Culture

https://philippinestudies.uk/mapping/

This digital humanities project is a visual inventory of Philippine objects dating to the mid-20th century which are in holdings of museums and private collections outside of the Philippines. The open access online inventory gathers photographic and textual information about these objects and aggregates the data in an easy-to- navigate, all-in-one sortable portal.

 

Textile Hive*

https://www.textilehive.com/the-database/ 

Textile Hive is the largest private digitized textile collection in the world. Comprised of over 50,000 textiles spanning 70 countries and two centuries, Textile Hive enables a wider conversation around textiles globally through immersive physical and digital experiences. Items in the Andrea Aranow Textile Design Collection are digitized in high-resolution and cataloged using an in-depth, 2,300-term custom hierarchical taxonomy describing objective information and visual characteristics of each piece. An innovative and highly visual interface was then designed and developed for the collection as a web application featuring a custom database and integrated knowledge base.

*This resource requires a trial account. MTR co-editors will provide access to reviewer.