The Virtual Lightbox for Museums and Archives (VLMA) is an educational tool for collecting and reusing in a structured fashion the online contents of museums and archives with visual components. With VLMA, you can browse and search collections, construct personal collections, export these collections to xml or Impress presentation format, annotate them, and share your collections with other VLMA users.

Source code for the applet, as well as for some of the web services needed to make a VLMA net, is available via the project's cvs repository on sourceforge.

The nightly build of the applet from the development team can be found here.

Development of VLMA has been sponsored by JISC. It is a collaborative project between the University of Reading and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. The image manipulation segments of the VLMA source code are based on the Virtual Lightbox (created by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities).