Marble (Museums, Archives, Rare Books, and Libraries Exploration) is a teaching and research platform designed to make cultural heritage collections at the University of Notre Dame more accessible to the campus community and beyond.

Faculty, students, and the general public can browse digitized materials from across campus in a single platform — from books to manuscripts, sculptures to paintings, photographs to ephemera, and more. Each item displays one or more images, with descriptive information and options for magnified and comparable viewing.

These digitized materials are only a fraction of the University’s holdings, and cross-institutional teams will collaborate to add new items regularly. The development roadmap will enable new features and continue to improve collaboration between libraries and museums.

While only select materials from the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, Rare Books & Special Collections, and the University Archives are featured, the Marble content is representative of the distinctive collections housed at the University of Notre Dame. Learn more about the cultural holdings of the Marble partners below.## Platform Development

This site was collaboratively developed by the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art and Hesburgh Libraries thanks to a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. To learn more about this collaborative platform and our development process, the grant outputs are accessible in our institutional repository, CurateND. To learn more about the development process, view the documentation.

Development Tools

• The Digital Collections front end is built using Gatsbyjs.
• Our zoomable, high-resolution images are driven by IIIF.
• The code for the Marble project was developed by the Hesburgh Libraries development team and is open by default and published on Github