Who is it for?

This theme works best for communities who need simple archiving with minimal technical skills and simple workflows. To keep things simple, it doesn’t have built-in search or filtering. ***If this sounds like you, and you don’t need blogs or other add-ons yet, the best way to start is using the Quick Start guide in our documentation

If you need something more complex but want to stick with Github Pages because it’s free and doesn’t require you to find a web host of your own, we recommend either Minicomp/Wax (a Github theme with searching, filtering and IIIF metadata to formalize information about your collection) or CollectionBuilder (a Github theme that uses Google Spreadsheets to incorporate maps and timelines).

That said, anyone can use the DigitalArc Jekyll Theme and the guides for community-collection days that are part of the larger DigitalArc Platform. If you’re familiar with Github Pages and Jekyll, or you want blog posts and an item collection, this version of the theme is a kitchen-sink version with everything in it. You can fork it as you would any other Jekyll theme.