Results for "Coalition for Networked Information"
![A close-up view of a parchment sheet, covered closely with black ink writing. A passage is highlighted in yellow, “Estate at Studley and Calne and other Places in the County of Wilts[hire].”](https://siarchives.si.edu/sites/default/files/header_images/Studley%20House%20reference%20%281%29.jpg)
Tracing Inheritance in the Hungerford Deed
- Date: September 24, 2020
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: The Hungerford Deed split an inherited estate between two sisters—but what do we know about those properties? We’ve dug deep into one of them here.
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Link Love: 8/19/2011
- Date: August 19, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: It’s an old fashioned card catalogue full of jokes! The National Museum of American History gives insight into Phyllis Diller’s “gag file”—50,000 annotated jokes featured in a new exhibition at the museum. How are institutions preserving born digital art? Here’s an article about Rhizome’s ArtBase—an archive of digital artworks [via the National Digital Information
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Hide and Seek
- Date: December 9, 2010
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: [caption id="attachment_10342" align="alignleft" width="228" caption="Miss Willey Glover DeNis, (1879-1929), Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA2008-0987."][/caption] At the Archives, we often run across images that have minimal information associated with them. Sometimes it’s a number or a name (usually incomplete) or a year. It is rare to find a beautifully complete
A New Solution for an Old Scrapbook
- Date: November 14, 2017
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: The Archives recently received several scrapbooks created by Elizabeth C. Reed during her husband's tenure as Director of the National Zoological Park (NZP). These scrapbooks contain information about noteworthy events and consist mostly of newspaper clippings gathered from newspapers around the country. Anyone who's attempted to preserve scrapbooks can tell you it's a bit of
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See Here: 7/30/2010
- Date: July 30, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="In a 1989 videotaping session, Secretary Adams welcomes visitors to the Smithsonian, The segment ran in the Smithsonian Institution Building Information Center theater, Lee Woodman, producer in the Office of Telecommunications, directs the camera crew, 1989, by Jeff Tinsley, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Connecting the Dots: Issues with Preserving Complex Websites
- Date: July 17, 2012
- Description: Capturing websites that contain a lot of JavaScript and Flash content pose serious problems for web archivists.
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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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Link Love: 4/15/2011
- Date: April 15, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Congratulations to the main Smithsonian website, which has been nominated for a Webby Award in the category of Best Cultural Institution website! (Please go and vote.) Mark your calendars! The Library of Congress will be hosting the free public event, Pass it On: Personal Archiving Day, on Saturday, April 30, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m to provide the public with information about
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Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website
- Date: July 3, 2018
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives continually strives to add more collection information to its website. This is a periodic post highlighting new acquisitions and individual collection items.[edan-image:id=siris_arc_394342,size=500,center]New Finding Aids Online:National Air and Space Museum, Space History Department, Exhibition Records, 2000-2004, 2010-2016, Accession
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The Smithsonian Sent Healing Wheels to WWI
- Date: June 21, 2011
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: One of the challenges of being a reference archivist is focusing on the inquiries received, while suppressing the bits of information you come across that may be of personal interest (the corner of my desk is occupied by an ever increasing list of topics I aspire to research further on my own time). Recently, however, a colleague who is familiar with my interest in rare and
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Up In the Air: The New 9/11 Photos
- Date: February 15, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="403" caption="Untitled, 2001, by Susan Watts, Digital photograph, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications, Courtesy of Susan Watts/New York Daily News, Image No. watts012."][/caption] Given how quickly photographs are spread by the news and social media, we’ve come to
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ellen Alers
- Date: April 7, 2021
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.