ArcLight context
2014 - 2017
Discovery and Information Architecture
Activities included: environmental scan, stakeholder goals, interview planning, archivist interviews, end-user interviews, and interview analysis.
Led by Stanford Libraries (Digital Library Systems and Services, Special Collections), and in collaboration with University of Michigan, Georgia Tech, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and the National Library of Medicine. Feedback solicited from Columbia University, Getty Research Institute, Indiana University, New York University, Penn State University, Rockefeller Archive Center, University of Albany, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Yale University.
2017 - 2019
Community Development
Activities included: deliver minimum viable product, design mockups, design style guide, requirements prioritization, technical analysis, and assessment of additional features.
Led by Stanford Libraries (Digital Library Systems and Services, Special Collections), University of Michigan, Duke University, Indiana University, and Princeton University. Feedback solicited from Rockefeller Archive Center and University of Albany.
2022
Version 1.0 of ArcLight released
The Access Team, part of Digital Library Systems and Services at Stanford Libraries released v1.0 of ArcLight following a work cycle in 2022. Access the code on the ArcLight GitHub.
2023
Community Sprint
Members of the ArcLight community spent two weeks working on code and documentation updates and enhancements for ArcLight. For more information, see our community sprint accomplishments, along with the project board in GitHub.
2024 - present
Implementations
Institutions continue to implement ArcLight, and our community is growing every year. See Implementations for a current list of ArcLight adopters.
Community Calls
Community calls take place on a quarterly basis and are open to all. See all prior meeting agendas and notes for more information.
IMLS Grant
The University at Albany Libraries, together with the Empire State Library Network (ESLN), are further developing ArcLight into a single interface for both physical and digital archives and special collections materials. Supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for Libraries program, this project will provide common design patterns, specifications, and indexing tools that enable ArcLight to provide discovery and access to digital materials, metadata, and full-text content using International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) manifests alongside archival description traditionally contained in finding aids.