Results for "Insurance"
- Blog Post
Location! Location! Location!
- Date: July 6, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Blog Post
The Challenge of Preserving Digital Architectural Drawings
- Date: July 27, 2010
- Creator: Jessica Scott
- Description: [caption id="attachment_7461" align="aligncenter" width="369" caption="Construction of the National Museum of the American Indian, July 2003, digital photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 06-012, Box 24, Folder NMAI Construction-July 2003, Folder CD_1, # U.jpg."] [/caption] At the Archives, we’ve recently begun working with some digital files of architectural
Smithsonian Marine Biology Station in Florida
- Date: October 16, 2018
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Did you know the Smithsonian has a Marine Station at Fort Pierce, Florida, where visiting researchers can study marine organisms onsite?
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What Does an Electronic Records Archivist Do?
- Date: August 10, 2010
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Do you still work with 3.5-inch diskettes? How about 5.25-inch floppy disks and Zip disks? I do. As an electronic records archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, I spend most of my time working with digital information to help ensure it will be accessible in 5, 25, or even 100 years from now. Born-digital materials arrive at the archives in a variety of ways (CDs,
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Digital Video Preservation: Identifying Containers and Codecs
- Date: July 26, 2011
- Description: In addition to a rich collection of analog moving image material currently being digitized, the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) accessions large quantities of born-digital video from various hard drives, CDs, DVDs, and websites across the Institution. And just as digitization is a method of preserving moving image content before it degrades on an analog carrier, digital