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2024

November 11: Yale University and the University of Oxford concluded their fascinating research project that explored ways of starting collection catalogues directly from Linked Open Data
October 23: Quire presentation at MCN (Museum Computer Network Conference)
October 22: Quire presents “A Hands-On Quire Workshop” at the University of Kansas
October 10: The Denver Art Museum shared a useful resource on digital publishing with the community
August 15: Updated style customization instructions are shared with the community
July 11: Amon Carter Museum of American Art’s Quire publication, The Art of the Scene: Charles Truett Williams received the Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art (CASETA)’s annual Exhibition Catalog Award for the most outstanding exhibition catalog on early Texas art
June 4-13: Quire exhibits, sponsors, and presents at Library Publishing Forum (LPF), the IIIF Annual Conference, and the AUPresses (AUP) Annual Meeting.
March 14: Object Grids & Filters are introduced as a new feature

2023

November 10: Quire presentation at MCN (Museum Computer Network Conference)
November 8: Quire, Price Lab for Digital Humanities, and Penn Libraries present “A Day of Digital Publishing & Quire”
August 29: Quire presentation and community-meetup at National Museum Publishing Seminar
August 10: Rotating images are introduced as a new feature
July 13: New bug reporting instructions are announced to the community
June 14: Minneapolis Institute of Art’s Quire publication, Highpoint Editions: A History & Catalogue, 2001–2021 is reviewed in Panorama
June 8: Collapsible accordion sections are introduced as a new feature
May 11: Quire promotional trailer released
April 4: Quire presentation at Museums and the Web Conference
March 9: New Quire demo available
February 16-18: Quire at College Art Association Conference

2022

December 2: The v1.0.0 pre-release and official open-source launch are announced
June 9: Monthly Quire office hours are introduced
May 12: Announcement goes out that that Quire will be switching to a new static site generator in advance of the upcoming open-source launch
April 14: Quire is a sponsor of the 2022 Library Publishing Forum

2021

September 9: Quire v0.20.0 is released, including the new multilevel subsection feature
May 13: The new Quire website is launched to the community
April 6: Quire v0.19.0 released, including IIIF compatibility
February 18: Quire community forum is launched via GitHub Discussions

2020

Dec. 1: Quire newsletter is launched
Oct 3: Six new features added to our roadmap
Sept 30: Quire team selected to beta test It Takes A Village: Open Source Software Sustainability tools
Sept 16: Welcome to Getty’s development team, Hannah Balenda!
Mar 9: Welcome to our new community manager, Erin Cecele Dunigan!
Feb 3: Quire v0.18.0 released

Past Events

Event	Date	Description
MCN (Museum Computer Network)	October 23, 2024	“A Quire Case Study: Collaborating with Non-Technical Colleagues,” presented by Erin Cecele Dunigan and Ruth Evans Lane
The University of Kansas	October 22, 2023	“A Hands-On Quire Workshop
Library Publishing Forum (LPF)	May 15-16, 2024	“Path, Many Tools: Publishing Getty’s Open Access Journal,” presented by Greg Albers
College Art Association Conference (CAA)	February 15-17, 2024	30-minute Quire demonstrations at Booth # 205
MCN (Museum Computer Network)	November 10, 2023	“A Community Effort: Digital Publishing with Open-Source Tools,” moderated by Erin Cecele Dunigan (Quire) with Duane Degler (Design for Context) and Caitlin Sweeney (Wildenstein Plattner Institute)
Price Lab for Digital Humanities and Penn Libraries	November 8, 2023	“A Day of Digital Publishing & Quire,” featuring Cosette Alonso Bruhns (Penn Libraries), Chris Diaz (formerly Northwestern University Libraries), Erin Cecele Dunigan (Quire), Matt K. Gold (CUNY Graduate Center/Manifold), Liz Neely (Georgia O’Keefe Museum), Stewart Varner (Price Lab for Digital Humanities)
National Museum Publishing Seminar	August 29, 2023	Quire Community Meet-Up, featuring Meghan Gray & Stephanie Alger (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art); Will Gillham (Amon Carter Museum of American Art); Valerie Hellstein (Denver Art Museum); and Stephanie Rebick (Vancouver Gallery of Art)
National Museum Publishing Seminar	August 28, 2023	“Gauging the Impact of Digital Publications,” moderated by Erin Cecele Dunigan (Quire) with Allison Levy (Brown University Library), Lauren Makholm (Art Institute of Chicago), and Liz Neely (Georgia O’Keeffe Museum)
Association of Academic Presses (AUP) Biennial Virtual Annual Meeting	June 8, 2023	“Open Publishing Platforms: A User’s Guide Part 1: Platforms Developed by AUPress Members,” moderated by Daniel McShane (Suny Press) with Alison Cobra (University of Calgary Press), Jason Colman (Michigan Publishing Services) and Erin Cecele Dunigan (Quire)
Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG)	June 12-15, 2023	Sponsor and Exhibitor
Museums and the Web (MW)	April 14, 2023	“How to Quire,” with Greg Albers and Erin Cecele Dunigan
College Art Association Conference (CAA)	February 16-18, 2023	30-minute Quire demonstrations at Booth # 218
IIIF Museums Community Group Meeting	May 10, 2022	“Leveraging IIIF Resources with Getty’s Open-Source Digital Publishing Tool,” with Greg Albers and Erin Cecele Dunigan.
Museum Publishing Digital Interest Group (MuPuDig) Webinar	February 22, 2022	Reflections on the one-year anniversary of Quire publication, French Paintings and Pastels, 1600–1945: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, with Stephanie Alger (Digital Publishing Assistant), Brigid Boyle (Block Family Foundation Doctoral Fellow), and Meghan Gray (Project Manager, Curatorial Associate in European Arts), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KG5I6TLF8Y.
Open Publishing Fest	November 11, 2021	“Quire: Getty’s Open-Source Digital Publishing Tool,” with Erin Cecele Dunigan and Greg Albers.
MuseumNext: Digital Collections Summit	October 6, 2021	“Opening Access: Getty’s Approach to Digital Collection Catalogues,” with Erin Cecele Dunigan
National Museum Publishing Seminar (NMPS)	August 2, 2021	“Digital Publishing Today: Three Case Studies” moderated by Erin Cecele Dunigan (Quire), with Alex Bortolot (Minneapolis Institute of Art), Heather Brand (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), and Emmet Byrne (Walker Art Center) presenting recent collections-based digital publishing projects.
IIIF Annual Conference	June 23, 2021	“Quire & IIIF: Implementing a User-Friendly Workflow for Digital Publishing,” with Greg Albers, Erin Cecele Dunigan, Matthew Hrudka, and Hannah Balenda.
Museum Computer Network (MCN)	Nov 10, 2020	“Quire—A Sustainable Digital Publishing Solution for Museums of All Sizes,” with Amanda Helton and Kathryn Wade from the San José Museum of Art
National Museum Publishing Seminar (NMPS)	July 2020	“Think Digital, Part 1: Conceptualizing; Part 2: Implementing,” with Greg Albers.
Open Publishing Fest	May 28, 2020	“Quire: Multiformat Publishing Solutions for Art Books and Beyond,” with Greg Albers, Erin Dunigan, Jayna Swartzman-Brosky, Nancy Um, and Amanda Helton, https://youtu.be/SB1Y5GfDP7c.
Museum Computer Network (MCN)	Nov 3, 2019	“Plague Water for Everyone! How open source digital publishing can organize & amplify multi-partner research projects,” with Alex Bortolot and Kris Thayer from the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Later reprised in January 2020 for the Museum Publishing Digital Interest Group, https://youtu.be/gE8JrMLrOQM.
Webinar: Quire Demo	July 11 & 26, 2018	A 90-minute webinar demonstrating Quire installation and basic operation, https://youtu.be/kFTcJLbMDxs.
Association of University Presses (AUP)	June 18, 2018	“Publishing Digital Projects,” with Greg Albers presenting on Quire alongside panelists representing other projects from the University of British Columbia Press, Stanford University Press, and Wayne State University Libraries.
Library Publishing Forum (LPF)	May 21, 2018	“Owned by the Academy: A Preconference on Open Source Publishing Software,” with Greg Albers presenting Quire in a lightning talk and showcase session.
National Museum Publishing Seminar (NMPS)	May 3, 2018	“Quire Digital Publishing Platform: Demo and Q&A,” with Greg Albers and Sarah Wambold.
Museums and the Web (MW)	April 18, 2018	“Sustainable MultiFormat Digital Publishing with Quire,” a half-day workshop with Greg Albers and Sarah Wambold.
Making Scholarly Digital Publications	April 5–6, 2018	A two-day convening hosted by Getty, USC, and Brown University, and including teams from a variety of platforms: Quire, Fulcrum, Editoria, Scalar, and Manifold.
College Art Association (CAA)	Feb 23, 2018	“Open-Source Digital Publishing with Quire,” a workshop with Greg Albers and Sarah Wambold.
Museum Computer Network (MCN)	November 7, 2017	“Hands on with Static Site Generators: Publishing Modern Sites with a 1990s Approach,” a half-day Quire workshop with Greg Albers and Eric Gardner.