{"id":8320,"date":"2020-11-20T16:39:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T21:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/?p=8320"},"modified":"2021-03-16T11:24:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T15:24:34","slug":"implementing-arclight-a-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/2020\/11\/20\/implementing-arclight-a-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Implementing ArcLight: A Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Around this time last year, I wrote about our ambitious plans to implement ArcLight software<\/a> for archival discovery and access at Duke in 2020. While this year has certainly laid waste to so many good intentions, our team persisted through the cacophony undeterred, and\u2014I\u2019m proud to report\u2014still hit our mark of going live on July 1, 2020<\/a> after a six-month work cycle. The site is available at https:\/\/archives.lib.duke.edu\/<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Now that we have been live for awhile, I thought it\u2019d be worthwhile to summarize what we accomplished, and reflect a bit on how it\u2019s going.<\/p>\n

Working Among Peers<\/h2>\n

I had the pleasure of presenting about ArcLight at the Oct 2020 Blacklight Summit<\/a> alongside Julie Hardesty (Indiana University) and Trey Pendragon (Princeton University). The three of us shared our experiences implementing ArcLight at our institutions. Though we have the same core ArcLight software underpinning our apps, we have each taken different strategies to build on top of it. Nevertheless, we’re all emerging with solutions that look polished and fill in various gaps to meet our unique local needs. It\u2019s exciting to see how well the software holds up in different contexts, and to be able to glean inspiration from our peers\u2019 platforms.<\/p>\n

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Slides from ArcLight@Duke presentation, 10\/7\/2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n