Eric Hoyt is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Hollywood Vault: Film Libraries before Home Video (University of California Press, 2014), co-director of the Media History Digital Library, and lead developer of Lantern, which received the 2014 SCMS Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award. His new book project, Motion Papers, combines archival research with data analytics to explore the history of the US motion picture trade press. In collaboration with Charles Acland, Hoyt has been leading the development of Project Arclight.