Results for "Databases"
- Blog Post
Digital Humanists Dive Into Archives
- Date: August 3, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Bloggers on The Bigger Picture often describe how, in the course of their work, they come across intriguing archival objects and artifacts that trigger new insights into history. “Hands on” encounters with compelling evidence from the past are thrilling and can be provocative. But so can different sorts of encounters, including those that are driven by data, rather than
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act To enhance geologic mapping of the United States, and for other purposes
- Date: 1993 05/18/1992
- Creator: 102d Congress, Sess. 2, 1992
- Creator: 102d Congress, Sess. 2, 1992
- Blog Post
Now you see it, sometimes you don’t, but thank goodness for archives
- Date: May 13, 2010
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="370" caption="Churchill High School Pep Rally, 1978, Geoff Winningham, Gelatin silver print on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1983.63.1667."][/caption] Years ago, when the National Endowment for the Arts had a Visual Arts Program to give out individual artist grants, a week
- Document
NSF 092403 final pdf.indd
#AskAnArchivist 2019: The Year of the GIF
- Date: October 3, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: You asked. We answered. On October 2, 2019, five Archive staff members were excited and ready to answer questions on Twitter and Instagram for #AskAnArchivist Day.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 04-012, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Department of Botany, Correspondence, 1963-2003
- Date: 1963 1963-2003
- Creator: National Museum of Natural History. Department of Botany
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 11-048, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.), Website Records, 2010
- Date: 2010
- Creator: National Museum of Natural History
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 05-180, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Information Technology and Communications, Exhibition Records, 2001-2005
- Date: 2001 2001-2005
- Creator: National Museum of American History. Information Technology and Communications
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Blog Post
Records and Information Management Month: The Librarian
- Date: April 28, 2010
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A clause in the last will and testament of English scientist James Smithson eventually led to his estate being left to the United States "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” There was much debate as to what constituted such an establishment, but many of the proposals
- Blog Post
From a Humble Beginning: The Smithsonian’s first Internet Domain
- Date: September 17, 2015
- Description: The origins of the Smithsonian’s internet domain or address.
How to Fit a Forest in Five Boxes
- Date: February 11, 2014
- Description: Field maps illuminate the origins of the Smithsonian’s long-term forest-monitoring project.
- Blog Post
Passwords and Paper Printouts: Preserving the Electronic Records of the Devra Kleiman Papers
- Date: July 28, 2011
- Description: In the course of my internship at the Smithsonian Archives’ Digital Services Division I’ve worked with myriad digital records, converting both new material and past accessions into formats that can be more easily preserved. But the most exciting part of my time here came when I was given my very own accession, the Devra G. Kleiman Papers, to work on. My task was to copy all of