{"id":2014,"date":"2020-12-15T01:32:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T01:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2020-12-15T01:32:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T01:32:04","slug":"content-added-to-archnet-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/2020\/12\/15\/content-added-to-archnet-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Content added to Archnet in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2015\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/12\/Images-Added-to-Archnet-in-2020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2015\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2015\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/12\/Images-Added-to-Archnet-in-2020-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/12\/Images-Added-to-Archnet-in-2020-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/12\/Images-Added-to-Archnet-in-2020-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/12\/Images-Added-to-Archnet-in-2020-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/12\/Images-Added-to-Archnet-in-2020-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/12\/Images-Added-to-Archnet-in-2020.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A random selection of 16 images from the 2,700+ added to Archnet in 2020<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">2020 has been an unusually difficult year around the world, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>As universities took courses online, <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/\">Archnet.org<\/a>, a joint project of the Aga Khan Documentation Center of the MIT Libraries (<a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/authorities\/7195\">AKDC@MIT<\/a>) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akdn.org\/our-agencies\/aga-khan-trust-culture\">Aga Khan Trust for Culture<\/a> (AKTC) worked with our partners step up the pace through which we made available quality resources for studying Islamic architecture and the built environment of Muslim societies more broadly.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Approximately 3,350 new records have been published on Archnet so far this year.\u00a0 In addition to making over 2,700 new images available for download, we have also published records for 130 sites, 216 publications, 120 videos, and 85 names. We hope some of these have been useful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Among the highlights of the material that has been added this year are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12 sites and 926 images of the <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/admin\/collections\/1837\/edit\">Built Heritage of Lebanon Survey Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Digitized slides from the <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/1786\">Aga Khan Visual Archive<\/a> (AKVA) including photographs of sites in <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/1787\">Iran<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/1830\">Malaysia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/1829\">Morocco<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/1831\">Nigeria<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/1832\">Pakistan<\/a>, and Syria. Consult the <a href=\"https:\/\/dome.mit.edu\/handle\/1721.3\/45936\">AKVA on DOME<\/a> for additional content.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">A series of six lectures in French, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/1788\">Servir la collectivit\u00e9, am\u00e9liorer les conditions de vie et revaloriser l\u2019h\u00e9ritage<\/a>\u201d focusing on six recipient projects of the <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/awards\">Aga Khan Award for Architecture<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">The Aga Khan Trust for Culture\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/1827\"><i>At Home<\/i><\/a> multimedia magazine<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Videos dealing with the <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/2251\/details\">built environment in the Maghreb<\/a>, made from selected episodes of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themaghribpodcast.com\/\">Maghrib in Past &amp; Present Podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Volumes <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/publications\/14132\">31<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/publications\/14147\">32<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/publications\/14164\">33<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/43\"><em>Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/publications\/13547\"><em><em>The Garden of the Mosques. Hafiz H\u00fcseyin al-Ayvansaray\u00ee\u2019s Guide to the Muslim Monuments of Ottoman Istanbul <\/em><\/em><\/a>from the series <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/391\"><em><em>Studies and Sources on Islamic Art and Architecture: Supplements to Muqarnas<\/em><\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">The book <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/publications\/14168\"><em>Lahore: A Framework for Urban Conservation<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/1781\">Photographs of Afghanistan and Central Asia<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/id.lib.harvard.edu\/alma\/990119685550203941\/catalog\">Josephine Powell collection<\/a> at Harvard\u2019s Fine Arts Library<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">The book <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/publications\/14141\"><em>Josephine Powell: Photographs of Afghanistan 1959-68<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/publications\/13548\"><span class=\"s1\">\u0627\u0644\u062a\u062c\u062f\u064a\u062f<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">\u0648<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0623\u0635\u064a\u0644<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">\u0641\u064a<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">\u0639\u0645\u0627\u0631\u0629<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">\u0627\u0644\u0645\u062c\u062a\u0645\u0639\u0627\u062a<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">\u0627\u0644\u0625\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645\u064a\u0629<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s2\"> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/publications\/13548\">Innovation and Authenticity in the Architecture of Muslim Societies<\/a> (book)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"s2\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/publications\/14222\">2019 Fiscal Year Report<\/a> of AKDC@MIT<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Finding aids for the <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/publications\/14040\">Rifat Chadirji<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/publications\/14015\">Ali Tayar<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/publications\/14025\">Timurid Research<\/a> archives<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Newly published items from the <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/123\">Mohamed Makiya<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/851\">Hisham Munir<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/1337\">Ali Tayar<\/a> collections<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\">And so much more it is impossible to list here, so we\u2019ve gathered more of these resources in a <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/2252\">2020 collection on Archnet<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2021, look for new content and enhancements to improve searchability. We will also continue to develop our pedagogy collection, so even as we anticipate an end to the COVID-19 pandemic, be sure to let us know what might be helpful to you.\u00a0 As always we welcome <a href=\"mailto:archnet@mit.edu\">your feedback<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/archnet.org\/pages\/contribute\">contributions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 has been an unusually difficult year around the world, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0 As universities took courses online, Archnet.org, a joint project of the Aga Khan Documentation Center of the MIT Libraries (AKDC@MIT) and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) worked with our partners step up the pace through which we made available quality resources for studying Islamic architecture and the built environment of Muslim societies more broadly.\u00a0 Approximately 3,350 new records have been published on Archnet so far this year.\u00a0 In addition to making over 2,700 new images available for download, we have also published records [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_this_an_event":false},"categories":[268,269,270],"tags":[296,299,308,326,348,355,362,465],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-akdc-news","category-archnet-news","category-contributors","tag-aga-khan-trust-for-culture-education-programme","tag-akaa","tag-american-institute-for-maghrib-studies","tag-archnet-updates","tag-collaborations","tag-covid-19","tag-digital-humanities","tag-online-learning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2023,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions\/2023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}