Results for "Community Documentation Initiative (Blog)"
Smithsonian Open Access-iversary
- Date: February 25, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Take a look at CC0 content we have posted in the year since the Smithsonian Open Access launch!
- Blog Post
A Sense of Place
- Date: February 24, 2011
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: [caption id="attachment_11498" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="Out of The Depths, or, the Triumph of the Cross by Nellie Arnold Plummer. AHC 2003.0025.1, in its custom clamshell box after full conservation (inset: before treatment condition), Courtesy Nora Lockshin and Anacostia Community Museum."][/caption] The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 04-165, Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives, Program Records, 1999-2003
- Date: 1999 1999-2003
- Creator: Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Blog Post
Link Love: 7/23/2010
- Date: July 23, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Visitors: Share photos of your trip to the Smithsonian museums in this new Flickr set! Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes posts an interview with Secretary Clough that includes a mention of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative and Institution’s overall prioritization of digitizing and archiving photographs. Time sink! The BBC launched a World Music Archive this morning! There
- Webpage
John Kinard
- Date: August 23, 2016
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_14623,size=300,left]Born in 1936 in Washington DC, John Robert Edward Kinard would become the first African American director of a Smithsonian museum at the age of 31. Kinard’s circuitous path into museum work took him from development work in Africa to community organizing on Maryland’s Eastern Shore to a dilapidated theater on Nichols Street in DC’s
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act To establish a national housing objective and the policy to be followed in the attainment thereof, to provide Federal aid to assist slum-clearance projects and low-rent public housing projects initiated by local agencies, to provide for financial assistance by the Secretary of Agriculture for farm housing, and for other purposes
- Date: 1950 07/15/1949
- Creator: 81st Congress, Sess. 1, 1949
- Creator: 81st Congress, Sess. 1, 1949
Facing our Fears
- Date: October 30, 2018
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: An unusually serious Halloween post in which we dress up to stage a mock recovery from a museum fire.
Looking Towards the Future: An Audiovisual Preservation Readiness Assessment
- Date: July 23, 2019
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives has been spending a lot of time looking at our audiovisual preservation practices. Check out the results from our recent assessment!
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 13-283, Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Website Records, 2010-2013
- Date: 2010 2010-2013
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Collection
Subject Files, 2005-2009, 2015-2018
- Date: 2005 2005-2018 2005-2009, 2015-2018
- Creator: Anacostia Community Museum Office of the Director
One Lens for Multiple Archives: A Pan-Institutional Survey of Born Digital Holdings
- Date: May 28, 2015
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: Summary of pan-Smithsonian survey of born digital collections holdings at archives and museums at the Smithsonian.
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Electronic Records Program History
- Date: April 26, 2017
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives' multi-pronged preservation strategy that establishes a foundation of bit-level preservation for its digital collections.