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    1. Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website

      • Date: October 5, 2021
      • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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    3. A computer window titled DArchInfo with clickable heading tabs labeled Search, Query Results, Clipboard, SQL, and logoutThe first column contains accession numbers for Smithonian Archives born-digital holdings (i.e. 00-002). The second column contains names of format types (i.e. AppleDouble Resource Fork, etc.). The third column is the number of each type of file format in that accession (i.e. there are 93 Acrobat PDF/A files).

      Assessing File Format Risk for Born-Digital Preservation Planning

      • Date: August 3, 2021
      • Description: In addition to physical damage and deterioration of storage media, the technological complexity and dependency of electronic records make them uniquely vulnerable to loss, corruption, and alteration (both accidental and malicious). To achieve long-term preservation of fragile born-digital materials, digital archivists need a plan.

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      Can We Just Forget It?

      • Date: July 15, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="Eraser, by Sarah McKenzie, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] An interesting story surfaced about a week ago, concerning an over-eager defense lawyer anxiously seeking to expunge not only governmental, but media archives, too, of potentially damaging information or previously published articles about a number

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    7. Takin' Care of Records

      • Date: April 17, 2018
      • Creator: Heidi Stover
      • Description: Did you know April is Records and Information Management Month? Did you also know that the Smithsonian Institution has over 154 million objects, 10 million digital records, and 156,830 cubic feet of archival materials in its collections? It is mostly thanks to amazing record keeping that we are able to locate, care, and give access to millions of fascinating objects.We look at

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      Some Web Developer Career Advice

      • Date: June 7, 2018
      • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
      • Description: This is the latest post in our series on career advice for the aspiring archives professionals. Each edition features information and career advice from a different member of the Archives team, regarding what they do, how they got here, and how you can too. Check out our previous posts, and be sure to let us know who you would like to hear from next!

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      Career advice from our Preservation Coordinator

      • Date: May 1, 2018
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: This is post is part of our series on career advice for the aspiring archives professional. Each edition features information and career advice from a different member of the Smithsonian Institution Archives team, regarding what they do, how they got here, and how you can too. Don’t be afraid to let us know who you might like to hear from next!What is preservation? This is a

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      I Found It In the Archives

      • Date: October 14, 2010
      • Creator: Ginger Yowell
      • Description: As you may know, the Smithsonian is celebrating Archives Month this October. This year, the Society of American Archivists is observing the month with the theme "I Found It in the Archives," which is meant to promote the treasures and gems that researchers find in archival collections, such as genealogical information about their families or materials related to their special

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      Some Further Thoughts About Photography And the Smithsonian

      • Date: October 18, 2010
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Architect's Model of the Smithsonian Institution Castle, 1846, by Unidentified photographer, Daguerreotype, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications, Image ID: AFS 140."][/caption] In 2000, as an answer to the question, “does the Smithsonian have

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      It Takes a Village

      • Date: October 13, 2010
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: Sometimes a single picture or new piece of information can open a window to a whole new perspective. In my case, it was a couple of sentences—spoken at a recent presentation at the Best Practices Exchange 2010 conference in Phoenix, Arizona—that turned out to be revelatory. The conference was a gathering of archivists, librarians, record managers, and digital curators whose

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    19. Documenting the Family Treasure Chest

      • Date: January 22, 2013
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Some helpful tips on what documenting and keeping track of family heirlooms or collections.

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      “Dear Sir”: Letters to the Smithsonian, 1948-1971

      • Date: August 21, 2018
      • Description: In 1956, Helena M. Weiss received a letter asking for information about “how to capture them, also how to raise them… what to put them in, also what to feed them.” Interestingly, the letter-writer neglected to specify what he or she meant by “them,” leaving Weiss only to guess what exactly the inquiry was referring to. From 1948 to 1956, Weiss was Chief of the Office of

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    23. A man in a suit and hat stares directly at the camera, holding a fish and a net. Trees and a body of water is visible in the background.

      Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website

      • Date: January 29, 2019
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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