Results for "History"
And Action: The Ins and Outs of DVD Video Preservation
- Date: September 3, 2013
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Archives face many challenges when it comes to preserving digital video on DVDs.
Emergency Preparedness: Because There May Come a Day…
- Date: May 3, 2016
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: When disaster strikes your collections, it can be stressful, especially if you’ve neglected that emergency preparedness plan. MayDay is the perfect time each year to revisit preparedness, salvage, and recovery plans, and here are a few keys things to make sure you include to aid in your disaster response.
Falling for Field Books
- Date: February 13, 2014
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: James Eike and his field books reveal not only his love of birds, but also his love of life and his family.
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Hot Topics in Archival Research, Winter 2018
- Date: January 16, 2018
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_10581,size=200,left]Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been
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I Never Meta-data I Didn’t Like…
- Date: June 10, 2010
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: So you know those thousand words a picture is worth? It’s true! Though my idea of what those thousand words should be might differ from yours and that’s why we’re going to talk about descriptive metadata, controlled vocabularies, and levels of access. Boy howdy, sounds like a wild ride, eh? When I was younger and infinitely more creative with how I spent my time I used to
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Making Sense of Data That’s Linked and Open
- Date: June 23, 2011
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: If you are a regular reader, or someone who works for a museum, library, or archive, you intimately understand the difficulty in managing big collections. If you’re not in this world, you do understand how hard it is to manage family photographs, a collection of email love letters, or the folder tucked in the bottom of your closet with old college papers. When you multiply
A New Solution for an Old Scrapbook
- Date: November 14, 2017
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: The Archives recently received several scrapbooks created by Elizabeth C. Reed during her husband's tenure as Director of the National Zoological Park (NZP). These scrapbooks contain information about noteworthy events and consist mostly of newspaper clippings gathered from newspapers around the country. Anyone who's attempted to preserve scrapbooks can tell you it's a bit of
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Science Service, Up Close: Father’s Day “Gene-ius”
- Date: June 13, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: To celebrate Father’s Day 2019, here are three photographs of famous fathers and sons in biology and physics.
Science Service, Up Close: Radio Extends the Audience, Inauguration Day, 1925
- Date: January 19, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: President Calvin Coolidge's second inauguration in 1925 reaches an audience of millions, thanks to a new technological innovation--the radio.
Letter from J. Silvestre Rebello, on behalf of Fr. Leandro de Sacramento, May 1, 1824
- Date: 1824 May 1, 1824
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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
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Preservation Strategies for Born-Digital Materials
- Date: April 26, 2017
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives' preservation strategies for its born-digital collections, including documents and spreadsheets, images, audio, video, text, email, databases, software, and website and social media records.