In the past year Archnet content expanded significantly. More than
12,300 new records were added, including names, sites, publications,
images, and other media. We also brought you new exhibitions and
collections, while also expanding our existing collections. We are
deeply grateful to all our partners and contributors who made this
possible. I am also grateful to my colleagues at the
Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT and at the offices of the
Aga Khan Trust for Culture in Geneva for all their hard work, and particularly to the
Archnet Directors for their leadership of this project. Most of all, I
am grateful to our users. According to Google Analytics, there were
nearly 3 million page views in 2017, and our user base expanded by 16%
of the 2016 calendar year.
This collection presents a sampling
of new material added to Archnet since January 1, 2017. The collection
contains four subgroups:
sites,
publications,
images and media,
collections and exhibitions. In total there are 312 items in this
collection, but that is only a small fraction of the resources added
during the 2017 calendar year. We hope this small taste is just enough
to whet your appetite, and that you will continue to explore Archnet,
the largest, most authoritative open access library of resources on the built environment of
Muslim societies.
See, also, our list of the
most accessed resources of 2017.
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Michael A. Toler, Archnet Content Manager
January 2, 2018