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    1. Caught on Film: Archives Fair 2012 Film Festival

      • Date: October 18, 2012
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: The Smithsonian’s 2012 Archives Fair will feature a film festival this year where films fitting the theme “Hidden Treasures” will make their debut.

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      Collecting Stories. Saving Treasures. Building a New Museum.

      • Date: February 16, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE. When I interviewed Lonnie Bunch, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, as part of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative’s online project click! photography changes

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      Anacostia Community Museum

      • Date: April 14, 2011
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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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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    9. Opening remarks from Bill Tompkins, National Collections Coordinator at SI.

      2011 Archives Fair Webcast Live Now

      • Date: October 14, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    11. Axonometric Drawing of Metamorphosis, Cooper Hewitt Opening Exhibition.

      Design + Archives = Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

      • Date: August 5, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: A look back at the history of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

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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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      What’s Happening at the Smithsonian

      • Date: April 7, 2021
      • Description: Check back to view collections that have been digitized through the Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative. For now, explore YouTube clips from the National Museum of African American History & Culture, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Archives of American Art, and the Human Studies Film Archives.

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    17. Embracing the Crowd

      • Date: April 15, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: When I started working with museums in 2005, the concept of crowdsourcing was in its infancy. That year, James Surowiecki ‘s book, “The Wisdom of Crowds,” was published and there were tiny experiments in crowdsourcing occurring in the cultural heritage sector. There were hesitations and objections about the whole concept within the GLAM (gallery, library, archive, museum)

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      Link Love: 7/14/2017

      • Date: July 14, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Perfect fodder for animated gifs; zootropes. [via Unfunk]Send SFMOMA a text and it will respond with art! [via SFMOMA]Eerie plaster casts of people and animals in their final moments before being buried in Pompeii. [via Atlas Obscura]Weighing newborn babies wasn't "a thing" until the 20th century. [via O Say Can You See, National Museum of American History]Archives Unleashed

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      Researchers

      • Date: February 9, 2011
      • Description: Find resources for researchers on the Archives' website.

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      To Market, To Market

      • Date: August 14, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_1885" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="U.S. National Museum, Street vendors at Center Market, by unknown photographer, 10/16/1909, Smithsonian Institution Archives RU79 Assistant Secretary in charge of the United States National Museum, SIA2009-1992."][/caption] Interns and staff at the Smithsonian Institution Archives are digitizing historic

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