Welcome to the Quire newsletter, your monthly source for all things Quire, from news and events to new feature updates and highlights from our community.
NEWS
Community Forum in Action
Last month we introduced the Quire Community Forum, an opportunity for you to communicate, collaborate, help, and inspire your fellow Quire users. We invite you to introduce yourself and tell us what you are working on.
We've already seen some great community engagement. Thank you for posting your questions, sharing your publications, and assisting one another. This month's posters include:
How to Set Up Forum Notifications
If you would like to receive alerts about new posts and discussions on the forum, please follow these steps:
- At the upper right-hand corner, click the "Watch" button.
- In the drop-down menu, click the "Custom" option.
- Choose "Discussions." (You can also choose "Issues" if you are interested in contributing to the repository.)
Reminder to Update Quire
Don't forget to update to the latest version of Quire (v0.18.2). Please see our previous newsletter for instructions.
If you are actively working on a Quire project and are nervous about making the update, here is a quick tip:
Follow the steps outlined in the newsletter to uninstall the old version and install the new version. When you open the project you are currently working on, delete the themes/quire-starter-theme/node_modules folder, and then run quire install in that project. That should do the trick!
New Quire License
Prior to Quire’s release as fully open-source software, our beta testers and new sign-ups are granted a free license to create, produce, distribute, and sell digital publications in any way they see fit. We only ask that they credit Quire and Getty and agree not to modify or distribute Quire itself.
See the full license language in the forum for details, and sign up for access here if you haven’t previously.
QUIRE IN THE COMMUNITY
Do you have a new Quire publication that you'd like to share with the community? Please complete this submission form.
Hong Kong University Libraries
From the Rainbow Screen is an online exhibition built to coincide with an exhibition currently running in the HKU Library of Song-Ming rare books from special collections that all deal with "Music in Print." The primary material is excerpted from a forthcoming book by an HKU Prof on Music and Confucian rites. This is HKU’s fourth published Quire project, an effort led by Cris Mattison (@tipeslowly) with Darcy Christ (@1000camels).
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
For their extensive French Paintings and Pastels, 1600-1945 collection catalogue, Nelson-Atkins built out new image and viewing features, a timeline, enhanced footnotes and glossary terms, and an improved search experience. Meghan Gray (@mgray4), Curatorial Assistant at Nelson-Atkins, noted that they are offering their NAMA theme on GitHub to help Quire become an institutional standard for museum publishing.
Northwestern University Libraries
Nuclear Compensation: Lessons from Fukushima is a monograph project that takes advantage of Quire’s support for bibliographic references, endnotes, and multiformat outputs. Chris Diaz (@chrisdaaz), Digital Publishing Librarian at Northwestern University, adds, "Quire supports the library's goals for focusing digital publishing on git-based workflows and static site generators and the university's goals of sharing rapid, multi-format academic publications."
