Results for "Big data"
- Field Book
Big Bone Lick, data, 1962-1980
- Date: 1962-1980 1962 1980
- Creator: Whitmore, Frank C.
- Blog Post
Link Love: 5/30/2014
- Date: May 30, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Link Love: 4/28/2017
- Date: April 28, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Very early "big data" tracking mortality rates in 17th-century London. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Mellon Foundation has funded an $887,000 project to develop community-driven archives! [via Info Docket]See what questions archivists across the country answered yesterday for #AskAnArchivist. [via SAA]What album would you be....if you could preserve yourself in a vinyl record.
- Blog Post
Making Sense of Data That’s Linked and Open
- Date: June 23, 2011
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: If you are a regular reader, or someone who works for a museum, library, or archive, you intimately understand the difficulty in managing big collections. If you’re not in this world, you do understand how hard it is to manage family photographs, a collection of email love letters, or the folder tucked in the bottom of your closet with old college papers. When you multiply
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 19-168, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Chief Information Officer, Website Records, 2018
- Date: 2018
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Chief Information Officer
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA RU007146, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Bird and Mammal Laboratories, Fur Catch and Big Game Inventory Statistics, 1935-1968
- Date: 1935 1935-1968
- Creator: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Bird and Mammal Laboratories
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Big Stone Gap Observations, 1932-1933; Notes on the Nesting of Birds, 1932-1934
- Date: 1932-1934 1932 1934
- Creator: Camblos, Joshua F. B.
- Blog Post
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
- Field Book
Volume 1, Cockburn, Major N. C., detailed journals of a big game hunter
- Date: 1900-1906 19001103 19060219
- Field Book
Wyoming, 1910 : to gather data on economic status and geographical distribution of birds and mammals; Included is an expense book, a post card from Merritt Cary, 5 June 1910, and a map
- Date: 1910 19100601 19100927
Field Notes, 1932-1939 (includes egg collecting at Big Stone Gap, Parramore Island, and Wachapreague, 1932-1936; nesting of Bald Eagles in Princess Anne County, 1937-1939; bird observations, 1932-1938)
- Date: 1932-1939 1932 1939
- Creator: Camblos, Joshua F. B.
Link Love: 4/21/2017
- Date: April 21, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Get ready for this summer's big installation at the National Building Museum: Hive. [via WAPO]Want to play old school games like Frogger? The Internet Archive has a Mac game emulator for you! [via Wired]Produce art. [via Colossal]A series of tutorials from the American Alliance of Museums, Becoming a Data Startup (for museums). [via AAM]470,000 images from Europeana are now