Results for "Computers"
- Finding Aid
SIA RU009549, DNA Sequencing Videohistory Collection, 1989-1990
- Date: 1989 1989-1990
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
What We Are Working On: Digital Preservation
- Date: May 29, 2018
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives recently acquired and accessioned digital records from Smithsonian Exhibits. Smithsonian Exhibits, Exhibition Records, circa 2000-2016, SIA 18-150 is an exciting collection that documents the design of exhibitions for Smithsonian museums and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). SITES offers exhibitions to other
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 16-047, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Chief Information Officer, Systems Development Records, 1949-2005
- Date: 1949 1949-2005
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Chief Information Officer
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
How Many Objects does the Smithsonian Have?
- Date: January 25, 2018
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12123,size=250,left]It is a simple answer really: We counted. From 1978 to 1983, the Smithsonian undertook a comprehensive inventory of its collections. It was the first time the Smithsonian had ever tried to count each object in its collections and it was a massive task. Over five years, staff from every museum and research center spent thousands of
Three Cheers for Embedded Metadata
- Date: February 28, 2012
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Metadata is a helpful tool. When you have embedded metadata, all the better when trying to figure out what something might be.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 14-272, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Office of Curatorial Affairs, Exhibition and Program Records, 1983-2014
- Date: 1983 1983-2014
- Creator: National Museum of American History. Office of Curatorial Affairs
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Mounting Photographs with Earth Magnets
- Date: May 7, 2013
- Description: A photograph of Charles Greeley Abbot belonging to the Smithsonian Archives was in need of conservation. The photograph is stable, but the board to which the photograph is mounted is broken into three pieces. The board was stabilized and placed into a new housing constructed with rare earth magnets to impose a slight pressure on the object. The new housing holds the object
- 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.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 17-349, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Chief Information Officer, Administrative Records, 1967, 1977-2013
- Date: 1977 1977-2013 1967, 1977-2013
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Chief Information Officer
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Everything you wanted to know about digitizing your photo album, but were afraid to ask!
- Date: December 19, 2013
- Creator: Kirsten Tyree
- Description: Welcome to Throwback Thursday! This holiday season, I hope to inspire you to take a trip down memory lane to the land of erstwhile and bygone days of the family photo album. What better time to pull these one of a kind treasures off the shelves than during the family festivities! Recently over the Thanksgiving holiday, I rediscovered my own family’s quasi-prehistoric,
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- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 96-068, National Museum of American Art (U.S.) Research and Scholars Center, Records, 1977-1995
- Date: 1977 1977-1995
- Creator: National Museum of American Art. Research and Scholars Center
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives