A catalogued index of the web, organised into 22 subject sections — 830 accessions and counting.
Select a section and have your site catalogued within the hour — no fee, no registration required. No charge. No condition. Permanently filed.
Submit a siteMarginalia36 is a catalogued web directory — a finding aid for the open internet. It holds 830 accessions organised across twenty-two subject sections, each entry reviewed and filed by the archivist. The name is drawn from the practice of writing annotations in the margins of a text: small, precise notations that collectively form a more complete picture.
No. Submission and inclusion are entirely free of charge. The Marginalia36 index is a public catalogue; the archivist does not levy a fee for cataloguing, and approved entries are held in the permanent record without condition.
Entries are arranged across twenty-two subject sections — from Conveyances & Mechanical Records to Journey Records & Voyage Accounts. Within each section, accessions are ordered by receipt date. There is no internal ranking; the catalogue makes no judgement of one entry over another within its section.
Use the submission form accessible from the catalogue homepage. Enter your domain address, select the most appropriate section, and supply a brief description of the site. The archivist reviews each submission individually and, if approved, commits the entry to the appropriate section. You will not receive a confirmation email; approved entries simply appear in the catalogue.
The archivist checks that the domain resolves, the description is accurate, and the entry is not a duplicate of an existing accession. Approved submissions are entered into the relevant section. Submissions that do not meet these criteria are declined without further correspondence.
The Marginalia36 catalogue does not currently offer a self-service editing interface. If a site changes address or you wish to request removal of an entry, use the submission form to note the request and the archivist will attend to it in due course.
The catalogue currently holds 830 accessions across twenty-two sections. The largest single section is Miscellaneous Accessions with 189 entries; the smallest is Property Deeds & Estate Records with five. The total grows as submissions are approved and new accessions are committed to the record.
Marginalia36 is a methodically assembled web catalogue holding 830 accessions across twenty-two subject sections — from Games of Chance & Wagering Registers to Journey Records & Voyage Accounts, each entry reviewed and indexed upon receipt. The archive operates on straightforward principles: any functioning website may submit for inclusion; the archivist reviews, assigns to a section, and commits the entry to the permanent finding aid. This catalogue does not rank, score, or editorially endorse any listed domain — it catalogues. Researchers browsing Marginalia36 will find entries organised into twenty-two sections covering the principal subject areas represented in the submission pool, each with its own descriptive guide to orient new visitors. The index is freely browsable without registration, and submission of a new site is similarly without charge. The finding aid is updated as submissions are approved, making Marginalia36 a living archive rather than a fixed edition. The name reflects an archival practice: marginalia are the annotations left in the margins — small notations that together form a fuller picture of the whole.