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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

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    3. A screenshot of a data table used for recording the condition of discs. The left side contains label information for the discs and the upper right side lists different types of damages.

      Burn This Disc: Treating Fire-Affected Optical Discs, Part I

      • Date: September 2, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: This is part one of three in a series of blog posts about a research project on treating fire-affected optical discs. This month, we’ll introduce the project.

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    5. Seven volunteer standing shoulder-to-shoulder in a reading room.

      #MCN50 Conference Next Week

      • Date: November 7, 2017
      • Creator: Charles Zange
      • Description: Behind the archivists, technicians, and specialists of the museum field are an abundance of organizations that network ideas, connect professionals, and present new strategies to broaden the impact of museums (American Alliance of Museums, Society of American Archivists, etc.). Many associations focus on specific aspects of this dynamic field and help to push museum practice

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    7. Email Users Directory, 2015, Courtesy of David Bridge.

      The History of Email at the Smithsonian

      • Date: July 21, 2015
      • Description: Many of us read, write and send emails every day, but when did it all start at the Smithsonian? In 1980 Smithsonian staff had typewriters and telephones on their desk, with one or two FAX machines per office. The Smithsonian operated a single general purpose computer, the Honeywell mainframe, for all Smithsonian data processing applications and which did not include an email

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    9. Hupa basket, Date unknown, by Unidentified photographer.

      Accession Records: Not Just Interdepartmental Paper Piles

      • Date: August 11, 2011
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    11. Watson Davis’s handwritten notes on the day he first met John Thomas Scopes in June 1925. Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Science Service: Up Close

      • Date: May 19, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Each Smithsonian Institution Archives collection has a life story. That narrative, much like the biography of a person, can explain how a collection's photographs, letters, and documents relate to each other. Closer inspection may also reveal hidden connections to other archival materials and can help in identifying photographers and writers. This new blog series will turn a

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    13. DC workers evacuate to the National Mall, August 23, 2011.

      All Shook Up: A History of Earthquakes at the Smithsonian

      • Date: September 21, 2011
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: Here at the Smithsonian we love to observe. So of course on August 23, 2011, at 1:51 PM, when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the Washington, DC region and many of us with it, we immediately started to observe what happened and how we could document it. As the Institution's historians, inevitably we needed to know, had this happened before and what were the effects? After

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      Doris Holmes Blake and the Fight for Women’s Right to Paid Employment

      • Date: May 3, 2021
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: How the marital status provision of the 1932 Economy Act impacted one Smithsonian scientist.

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    17. A typed legal court document dated March 1935. The pages have been paper-clipped together and show multiple fold creases.

      Six Tips for Preserving Family Archives

      • Date: November 26, 2020
      • Creator: Jessica Scott
      • Description: Some advice from Archives staff on preserving your family’s history. 

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    19. Lonnie G. Bunch III stands in an office in front of a cluttered bookshelf.

      Goodbye, 2019. Hello, 2020!

      • Date: December 31, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Before the Archives gears up for new projects in 2020, we’re looking back at our accomplishments and highlights in 2019.

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      Tichkematse—A Great Favorite at the Smithsonian

      • Date: November 25, 2021
      • Description: A forerunner of today’s efforts to decolonize and Indigenize American museums, Tichkematse was one of the first Native American employees at the Smithsonian Institution. His work with natural history and anthropological collections continue to inspire Native and non-Native museum professionals nearly 150 years later.

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    23. Two graphics of one large and one small folder. The color of the top of the folder is small but the lower later reveals a map.

      World of Maps Project - Preventive Conservation Actions

      • Date: February 26, 2019
      • Description: Explore our interns’ new techniques for preservation of maps at NMNH: a map transportation tool, a rehousing plan, and training for volunteers.

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