Results for "Digital images"
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Archives Reveal How Cities Change: Photos of DC from the Early 1900s
- Date: August 25, 2010
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives recently digitized over 300 images of Washington, D.C. from the 1920s. Read more about the collection here, and check out the photographs, which are now available on Smithsonian Collections Search Center as well as on the Flickr Commons. Intern Amanda Kaufman writes about the collection, which she helped digitize this summer, below. How
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When Photos Stop Being Pictures
- Date: March 18, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Wallet, by Amanda Govaert, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] A recent article by Caitlin McDevitt in the Washington Post, describing Facebook’s expanding role as a hub for digital photography, while providing some surprising facts, raises one particularly interesting issue. As more people post and share
What Our Experts Want You to Know About Digitization
- Date: May 19, 2020
- Description: Our digitization experts answer questions about the complicated and time-consuming process of digitizing our collections.
Science Service, Up Close: A Meeting Of Minds
- Date: April 7, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: A rare meeting of the scientific minds at the 92nd Annual British Association Conference in 1924, captured by Science Service journalist Watson Davis.
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News Releases & Fact Sheet
- Date: August 1, 2011
- Description: Press releases and facts about the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
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Reformatting
- Date: May 1, 2017
- Description: The choice to create duplicate copies of collection material is often made for both preservation and access considerations. For some media, such as audiovisual materials, digitization is preservation. For fragile or actively deteriorating paper and photographic collections, a digital surrogate can be made to preserve the content and provide a stable copy for
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Link Love: 8/23/2013
- Date: August 23, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
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We’re Digitizing the Smithsonian Women’s Council Records!
- Date: June 30, 2022
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: Celebrate with us as we ramp up to digitize more than 36,000 records documenting the history of women and work at the Smithsonian.
A (Brief) History of Sloths at the Smithsonian
- Date: October 20, 2020
- Creator: Jessica Scott
- Description: …in which a member of the Archives staff turns her passion for sloths into a mission to research their history at the Smithsonian Institution.
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Digitizing Collections
- Date: April 28, 2017
- Description: In order to broaden access to the Archives’ collections, and reduce the impact of frequent handling, the Archives is digitizing its most valuable and used collections. Here are the standards and specifications.
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SIA Acc. 22-106, Smithsonian American Art Museum Office of External Affairs and Digital Strategy, Publicity Records, 1991, 1995-2020
- Date: 1995 1995-2020 1991, 1995-2020
- Creator: Smithsonian American Art Museum. Office of External Affairs and Digital Strategy
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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.