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Fire insurance plans now available on Archnet
Fire insurance plans of Alexandria, Cairo, and Constantinople (sic), are now available on Archnet. The plans show building footprints, usages, and materials. These plans were...
Big Data workshops come to MIT
The United States Census Bureau, in collaboration with the MIT Libraries Program on Information Science, is convening a series of workshops to examine the...
Coming soon: Arts of the Arab uprising
Creative Dissent: Arts of the Arab Uprisings will open September 10, 2015 in the Wolk Gallery. The exhibition documents the art of the Arab uprisings...
Aga Khan Documentation Center receives noted scholar’s archive
Yasser Tabbaa, a prominent scholar in Islamic art and architecture, has donated his archive to AKDC@MIT. Dr. Tabbaa has taught at several prestigious US...
Ever wonder what people are watching on Archnet?
Archnet users watched embedded videos ranging from music in Morocco to women architects working in the Muslim world. With more than 216,000 page views,...
Archnet update: New features and improved search interface
Archnet, a collaborative project between the Aga Khan Documentation Center and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (Geneva, Switzerland), was recently updated to provide a...
International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) abstracts now available on Archnet
Working with International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) director, editor, and publisher, Intellect Ltd., the Aga Khan Documentation Center and the Aga Khan Trust...
New images of Yemen on Archnet
Aga Khan Documentation Center is pleased to announce a new collection of photographs of Yemen taken by Peggy Crawford (1917-2015) on Archnet. Ms. Crawford...
MIT Faculty Open Access Policy yields 3.1M downloads & many thankful readers
As of the end of May 2015, downloads of articles deposited in relation to the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy topped 3.1 million on...