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    What Does an Electronic Records Archivist Do?

    • Date: August 10, 2010
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Do you still work with 3.5-inch diskettes? How about 5.25-inch floppy disks and Zip disks? I do. As an electronic records archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, I spend most of my time working with digital information to help ensure it will be accessible in 5, 25, or even 100 years from now. Born-digital materials arrive at the archives in a variety of ways (CDs,

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    I Never Meta-data I Didn’t Like…

    • Date: June 10, 2010
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: So you know those thousand words a picture is worth? It’s true! Though my idea of what those thousand words should be might differ from yours and that’s why we’re going to talk about descriptive metadata, controlled vocabularies, and levels of access. Boy howdy, sounds like a wild ride, eh? When I was younger and infinitely more creative with how I spent my time I used to

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    “A Wildlife Paradise”: International Collaboration on the DMZ Ecology in the 1960s

    • Date: November 12, 2019
    • Description: The DMZ ecology project reveals the Smithsonian’s commitment to ecological research programs as well as the complexity and contingency of an international collaboration.

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  7. Lantern slide photograph on glass in wood mount, William Langenheim (1807–1874) and Frederick Langenheim (1809–1879) Philadelphia, 1850.

    Deconstructing a Mystery: Rare photo proves to be the earliest ever taken of the Smithsonian Castle

    • Date: August 10, 2015
    • Description: A rare hyalotype proves to be the earliest known photo of the Smithsonian Castle, taken in 1850 when it was still under construction.

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  9. A Conservator Abroad: Paper Conservation in Japan

    • Date: November 16, 2017
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Nearly two years ago, I first heard of a course on the conservation of Japanese paper co-organized by ICCROM, the cultural heritage arm of UNESCO, and the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (also known in Japanese as “Tobunken”). Over three weeks, the course offered a first-hand look at the traditional Japanese conservation techniques, materials, and

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  11. Alexander Wetmore in Panama, 1947.

    The Smithsonian Secretaries: That Tall Man from New York, Part I

    • Date: April 26, 2016
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: A look at the characteristics of the thirteen individuals who have led the Smithsonian.

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  13. At left, a brown-haired man leafs through a folder of archival correspondence laying on a white work table, while a brown-haired woman takes notes on her laptop, which is perched atop a gray library cart laden with archival storage boxes.

    Finding Our Way Ahead

    • Date: June 16, 2022
    • Description: Since our last post, we have moved back to working on site in our new, hybrid normal. See how our proposals for new workflows are turning out!

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  15. Presentation of Kennedy Aircraft

    Sweet Caroline

    • Date: November 18, 2014
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: The Kennedy Family presents their twin engine Convair CV-240, "Caroline" to the Smithsonian.

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  17. Lined paper with black ink writing and a drawing of a map at the bottom.

    The Arctic Adventures of Neal Griffith Smith

    • Date: December 21, 2017
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Today is the first day of winter. Not ready for the cold weather? It could always be worse. Ornithologist (and future tropical biologist) Neal Griffith Smith once wrote in his journal:"Still pensil [sic]. Well, I've got time and temperature to write. Just sharpened the pensil with a snow knife. We are parked smack in the middle of Southampton [Island] in a bloody windstorm. It

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  19. Screenshot from the Archives' DArcMail suite.

    Email Management Remains Important

    • Date: January 2, 2020
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Archives and libraries explore various tools to preserve and share email collections.

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  21. The World Is Yours: Stars in the Sky

    • Date: July 15, 2021
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Take a listen to clips from a The World Is Yours episode, “Stars in the Sky.”

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    Science Service, Up Close: "Stealth Authors" and An Appreciation of Honesty

    • Date: March 24, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: "Stealth Authors" and an appreciation of honesty when it came to women writers of science in the early 20th century.

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