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    1. An image from the Smithsonian Institution Global Earth Observatories website showing Barro Colorado Island an the location of the 50-ha plot and a visualization of data collected by the Forest Dynamics Project.

      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.

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      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

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      Link Love: 5/5/2017

      • Date: May 5, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A new understanding of the canine lineage brought to you by DNA and infographics. [via NBC News]A new open source platform was funded through IMLS for making historic newspapers accessible online. [via J. Willard Marriott Library]In the wake of Brexit, a new Migration Museum opened in London. [via artnet]You can travel the world with Smithsonian's National Anthroplogical

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      Link Love: 9/29/2017

      • Date: September 29, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Our National Museum of African American History & Culture is getting a forever stamp October 13th! [via WUSA 9]Save the date: the Freer Sackler reopens October 14th and the are celebrating with a festival, IlluminAsia featuring projections on the building. [via DCist] Need your baby animal fix? The National Zoo has three baby critically-endangered dama gazelles, the latest

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      Recommended Preservation Formats for Electronic Records

      • Date: April 26, 2017
      • Description: This document is intended for Smithsonian staff responsible for organizing and managing electronic records. It describes Smithsonian Institution Archives’ guidelines regarding file formats used for the long-term preservation of electronic records.

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      • 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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        Smithsonian Institution Archives

        • Date: April 14, 2011
        • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      • Preservation of Executable Files

        • Date: July 24, 2012
        • Description: As archives begin to receive executable files, archives must think about if and how to preserve them so their content lasts.

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        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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          Digital Curation

          • Date: April 27, 2017
          • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives' digital curation process, encompassing the selection, acquisition, preservation, maintenance, and delivery of digital data.

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