News & Events

Upcoming Events
News
Past Events

Get the latest news and info about upcoming events

Upcoming Events

Quire @ MCN 2026
October 21-23, 2026
Hyatt Regency Seattle
Seattle, WA
Learn more

Quire @ CAA 2027
February 3-6, 2027
NY Midtown Hilton
New York, NY
Learn more

Quire @ NMPS 2027
April 11-13, 2027
Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel
Chicago, IL
Learn more

Have an event coming up? Email us at quire@getty.edu and we’ll add it to the calendar.

News

Subscribe to Quire Newsletter

Visit our newsletter archive.

2026

November 11: Virtual GitHub tutorial offered to community members
October 21-23: The Quire team attends the MCN 2026 in Seattle and Erin Cecele Dunigan (Quire Community Manager) speaks about static-sites and Quire as part of a panel called “F***, Marry, Kill: Guidelines for Determining a Digital Project’s Lifespan”
October 7: Our fourth Quire Community Show-and-Tell is held featuring Valerie Hellstein (Denver Art Museum) and Kristi Ehrig-Burgess (Mingei International Museum)
September 17: “Meet the Community” interview feature is added to the newsletter and Quire website
August 13: New and improved search functionality is deployed in Quire and instructions for adding Google Fonts are added to the documentation
August 5: Our third Quire Community Show-and-Tell is held featuring Garrett Dash Nelson (Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library) and Tom Scutt (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Yale University)
June 17–18: The Quire team sponsors and attends the 2026 Library Publishing Forum at the University of Washington
June 13–15: The Quire team attends the 2026 AUPresses Annual Conference in Seattle
June 11: Documentation is added for Quire project cover creation for both PDFs and EPUBs
May 7–10: Quire books are exhibited at the 2026 LA Art Book Fair at the Getty booth.
April 29: Our second Quire Community Show-and-Tell is held featuring Valeria Federici (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art) and Paul Fuller (Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine)
March 19: FAQ section added to Quire website
February 18–21: Quire exhibits at College Art Association Conference
January 28: The inaugural Quire Community Show-and-Tell is held featuring Michelle Padilla (Amon Carter Museum of American Art) and Morgan Wylder (Materia: Journal of Technical Art History)

2025

November 16: Quire presents a hands-on workshop at DLF Forum in Denver, CO
November 12: Virtual GitHub tutorial offered to community members
October 22: The Quire team attends the 2025 MCN Conference and hosts MuPuDIG + Digital Publishing Meet-Up
October 9: Individual Page PDFs are introduced as a new feature
October 8: Virtual GitHub tutorial offered to community members
July 29: Community member, Valerie Hellstein from the Denver Art Museum, presents “Why Publish Digitally” as part of MuPuDIG’s bi-monthly webinar series
June 29–July 2: Quire is a premium exhibitor at National Museum Publishing Seminar and organizes a community meet-up.
June 29: Quire presents a hands-on workshop at the Maryland Center for History and Culture in Baltimore, MD during NMPS 2025.
May 14: Greg Albers presents the poster session What Can a Book Do? at the 2025 ARLIS/NA virtual conference
March 13: Quire presents a hands-on workshop at Code4Lib 2025 at Princeton University.
February 18: Greg Albers presents Beyond the Collection Catalogue: Recent Projects at Getty at the Museum Publishing Digital Interest Group’s bi-monthly meeting
February 13-15: Quire exhibits at College Art Association Conference

2024

December 1: Two community members publish a chapter about Quire in the The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities
November 11: Yale University and the University of Oxford conclude their fascinating research project that explored ways of starting collection catalogues directly from Linked Open Data
October 23: Erin Cecele Dunigan and Ruth Lane present “A Quire Case Study: Collaborating with Non-Technical Colleagues” at MCN 2024
October 22: Quire presents a hands-on 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 and sponsors the AUPresses (AUP) Annual Meeting. June 4–6: Quire exhibits at and sponsors the 2026 IIIF Annual Conference
May 15–16: Quire sponsors, exhibits, and presents at the 2024 Library Publishing Forum (LPF)
March 14: Object Grids & Filters are introduced as a new feature
February 15-17: Quire at College Art Association Conference

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 Annual Conference	October 22, 2026	“F***, Marry, Kill: Guidelines for Determining the Lifespan of a Digital Project” presented by Sarah Luken (Corning Museum of Glass), Erin Cecele Dunigan (Quire), and Mara Kurlandsky (Freelance)
College Art Association Conference (CAA)	February 18–21, 2026	Author Meet-and-Greet at Booth #321
Digital Library Federation Forum	November 16, 2025	3-hour hands-on Quire workshop at The Westin Denver Downtown
Museum Publishing Digital Interest Group (MuPuDig) Webinar	July 29, 2025	Why Publish Digitally, presented by Valerie Hellstein (Denver Museum of Art) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSn0kvLnZqk
National Museum Publishing Seminar	June 29, 2025	3-hour hands-on Quire workshop at the Maryland Center for History & Culture
ARLIS/NA	May 14, 2025	What Can a Book Do?, presented by Greg Albers
Code4Lib	March 13, 2025	3-hour hands-on Quire workshop at Princeton University
Museum Publishing Digital Interest Group (MuPuDig) Webinar	February 18, 2025	Beyond the Collection Catalogue: Recent Projects at Getty, presented by Greg Albers https://digpublishing.github.io/webinars/2025/02/18/beyond-the-collection-catalogue-recent-projects-at-getty.html.
College Art Association Conference (CAA)	February 13-15, 2025	30-minute Quire demonstrations at Booth # 222
MCN Annual Conference	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, 2024	“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 Annual Conference	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.