Quire by the Numbers | December 2021

[Erin-Cecele]

A record of Quire's growth and development as of December 2021:

• 130 new people signed up for Quire access
• 11 new publications from the community:
  The State of Museum Digital Practice | 2021 (Museum Studies at the George Washington University)
  Josephine Halvorson (Georgia O'Keeffe Museum)
  Akron Art Mail Vol. 1 (Akron Art Museum)
  Highpoint Editions (Minneapolis Institute of Art)
  Title West Journal: Art and Labor (Tilt West)
  What's Emerging in the Filed (Museum Computer Network)
  Materia: Journal of Technical Art History, Vol. 1 (Materia)
  Celebrating 10+ Years of Wired! (Duke University Digital Art History & Visual Culture Research Lab)
  Nuclear Compensation (Northwestern University Libraries)
  French Paintings and Pastels, 1600–1945 (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art)
  From the Rainbow Screen (Hong Kong University Libraries)
• Two new Quire versions were released 0.19.0 and 0.20.0
• The Quire team added two new features: deep zooming images with IIIF and multilevel subsections
• The Quire website is launched in May and received over 5.5K unique page views in 6 months
• The Quire newsletter gained over 100 subscribers for a total of 330 recipients with a 40% open rate
• The Quire GitHub Discussions forum is launched in February and saw over 50 posts with participation from 30+ community members in a year
• The Quire team participated in four major conferences: National Museum Publishing Seminar, IIIF Annual Conference, MuseumNext: Digital Collection Summit, and Open Publishing Fest