Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 12-495
Smithsonian Institution
Website Records, 2011-2012
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records documenting Twitter accounts maintained throughout the Smithsonian Institution (SI). Twitter is a third-party site used for public micro-blogging by SI staff. In addition to general SI-wide accounts, many of which are managed by the Office of Public Affairs, the accession documents the accounts of the Archives of American Art; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, including ArtLab+; the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, including the Center for Tropical Forest Science; the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum; the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery; the National Air and Space Museum, including the Public Observatory Project and the Office of Communications; the National Museum of African American History and Culture; the National Museum of African Art; the National Museum of American History, including Smithsonian Jazz; the National Museum of Natural History, including the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce; the National Museum of the American Indian, Film and Video Center; the National Postal Museum; the National Zoological Park, including the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project; the Office of the Chief Information Officer, Digitization Program Office; the Office of Fellowships and Internships; the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the Chandra X-ray Center of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; the Smithsonian Channel; the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, including the Marine Invasions Research Lab; the Smithsonian Folklife Festival of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage; the Smithsonian Latino Center, including the Latino Virtual Museum; and the Smithsonian Associates, Discovery Theater, Young Benefactors of the Smithsonian Institution, and Studio Arts Program. Each of the accounts was captured between November 2011 and January 2012, but may document activity back to the beginning of the account. Each account was either crawled or captured as an XML document. A screenshot of each account was also captured. Materials are electronic format.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Archives of American Art
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
- Chandra X-ray Center (U.S.)
- Freer Gallery of Art
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)
- National Museum of American History (U.S.)
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- National Postal Museum (U.S.)
- National Zoological Park (U.S.)
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
- Smithsonian Institution. Office of Public Affairs
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
- Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- National Air and Space Museum (U.S.)
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce
- Smithsonian Associates. Young Benefactors of the Smithsonian Institution
- Twitter (Firm)
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. ArtLab+
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Center for Tropical Forest Science
- National Air and Space Museum (U.S.). Public Observatory Project
- National Air and Space Museum (U.S.). Office of Communications
- National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Smithsonian Jazz
- National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.). Film and Video Center
- Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project
- Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Chief Information Officer. Digitization Program Office
- Smithsonian Institution. Office of Fellowships and Internships
- Smithsonian Channel
- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
- Marine Invasions Research Lab
- Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
- Smithsonian Latino Center
- Smithsonian Latino Center. Latino Virtual Museum
- Smithsonian Associates. Discovery Theater
- Smithsonian Associates. Studio Arts Program
- Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 12-495, Smithsonian Institution, Website Records