Results for "Digital libraries"
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.
Introducing the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
- Date: December 8, 2020
- Description: We've got big news! The Smithsonian Libraries and Smithsonian Institution Archives have merged to become Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.
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Smithsonian Digital Preservation Working Group
- Date: January 26, 2017
- Description: BackgroundIn July 2009, Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough spoke of the digital future of museums, libraries, and archives. "We have the capacity to tell the story of America and all its hopes, struggles, triumphs, creativity, contradictions, and courage." "Ultimately, we want to put all of our ... objects ... online so you can access them wherever you live. An overview of
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Digital Preservation Working Group
- Date: April 26, 2017
- Description: In 2014, Secretary Clough chartered a Digital Preservation Working Group to assess current preservation practices and develop lifecycle management recommendations for the future.
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The Born-Digital Diaries: “Interrogate the Floppy!”
- Date: April 28, 2020
- Description: As an intern with the Smithsonian Institution Archives, I developed strategies that would make our born-digital collections more accessible to the researcher and enhance discoverability.
SI Libraries Imaging Center
- Date: March 2, 1999
- Creator: Talman, Hugh
- Creator: Talman, Hugh
- SI History Bibliography
From Analog to Digital: The Smithsonian Institution Archives Digital Preservation Initiative
- Date: Winter 2009 2009
- Creator: Henson, Pamela M. 1948-
- Creator: Henson, Pamela M. 1948-
Archives, Record Management, and Digital Material
- Date: July 12, 2018
- Description: As a student with a background in libraries, one of the most interesting things I learned as an intern at the Smithsonian Institution Archives this summer was how closely related records management is to archival practice. I was unaware that as an institutional archive, the Archives is specifically concerned with preserving records that relate to the Smithsonian’s identity,
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Born Digital Access Project (BDAP)
- Date: June 27, 2024
- Description: About the ProjectFor more than two decades, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (SLA) Electronic Records Program has preserved and stewarded millions of born-digital holdings in the Archives permanent collections. The term “born-digital” refers specifically to records and primary source material that is created digitally. For the past 10 years, around 50 percent of the Archives
Spring Cleaning for Your Digital Life
- Date: December 31, 2012
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Get a head start on the new year, start personal digital archiving today. The Archives' Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig gets us started.
An Interview with Director Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
- Date: February 4, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives recently welcomed Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty as our inaugural director. Join us as we get to know the new leader of our organization!
Smithsonian Names Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty Director of Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
- Date: October 6, 2021
- Description: On October 5, 2021, the Smithsonian announced that Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty will be the new director of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, effective Nov. 6.
