Hands-on Digital Publishing Workshop with Quire

ID: WMA2026_559

Track: Other

Quire is a free digital publishing tool developed by Getty to create long-lasting, discoverable publications. Quire enables its users (students, researchers, professors, curators, editors, and more) to produce multimedia-rich scholarship for print and the web. This hands-on workshop teaches skills not exclusive to Quire and breaks down the necessary tools, formats, and processes into easy-to-understand concepts. Step-by-step exercises help participants gain confidence, so they leave feeling empowered to continue experimenting with Quire on their own.

Session Information

Format: Half-day workshop (9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.)

Uniqueness: Web people can learn how to make books, and book people can learn how to make websites. Attendees gain concrete skills for personal/ professional use.

Objectives:

1. Introduce attendees to the broader digital publishing landscape and the various problems/solutions available to help determine whether Quire is right for them.
2. Empower attendees to create their own digital publications with Quire 
3. Learn about useful technical skills like the computer’s built-in command-line shell, a text editor, storing content in Markdown and YAML, or making customizations with CSS.

Engagement: This is a hands-on workshop where participants create and customize their very own publishing projects. They can use them either as a publication jumping-off point or as a way to learn new skills/gain experience in digital publishing. It is interactive, and opportunities to share are encouraged throughout the session. Opportunities for further learning and experimentation are provided at the end.

Relationship to Theme:

Audience

Audiences: Curators/Scientists/Historians Other Technology 

Professional Level: Emerging Professional Mid-Career Student 

Scalability: More and more museums are being asked to go beyond the printed page and find digital solutions to their publishing needs, whether it’s a team of one tasked with finding the right distribution method for niche scholarly research or an entire publishing department looking to increase the reach and access of their publications. Quire was developed for a wide range of users with varying levels of technical skill. Quire is used at a number of large institutions, but it was also developed to empower smaller institutions with limited resources.

Participants