Results for "Open source software"
Link Love: 11/12/2015
- Date: November 13, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Voices from the past! A treasure trove of over 10,000 cylinder recordings of historic sounds to stream or download from the University of California, Santa Barbara. [via Hyperallergic] A powerful new VR experience; location-based storytelling from the New York Times, NYT VR. [via New York Times] Digital provenance comes to life at the Carnegie Museum: New open-source software,
Announcing the Latest Release of DArcMail
- Date: December 9, 2021
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: The Archives has released its latest version of its open-source email preservation software suite for anyone to use.
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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The Archives’ Video Digitization Equipment Gets an Upgrade
- Date: April 2, 2020
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: The Archives recently upgraded its video digitization equipment to an open source, cost effective solution.
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A Peek into an Electronic Records Archivist’s Toolbox
- Date: November 29, 2011
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Open source tools, CERP, JHOVE, DROID, Heritrix, for electronic records archivists to use in preserving digital files like WAV, PST, websites, and email.
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What are You Watching?
- Date: August 22, 2013
- Description: How open source helps us save film and video recordings digitally . . . no matter how bizarre the subject matter.
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It Takes a Village
- Date: October 13, 2010
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: Sometimes a single picture or new piece of information can open a window to a whole new perspective. In my case, it was a couple of sentences—spoken at a recent presentation at the Best Practices Exchange 2010 conference in Phoenix, Arizona—that turned out to be revelatory. The conference was a gathering of archivists, librarians, record managers, and digital curators whose
Link Love: 1/13/2017
- Date: January 13, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A collections move of epic proportions; the history of New York City is getting a new home. [via NY Times]The Smithsonian American Art Museum offers tours for blind and visually impaired visitors to experience art. [via NPR]The Internet Archive has launched an online news archive for PEOTUS Donald Trump. [via Internet Archive]The Digital Public Library of America launched an
Link Love: 10/28/2011
- Date: October 28, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Connecting the Dots: Issues with Preserving Complex Websites
- Date: July 17, 2012
- Description: Capturing websites that contain a lot of JavaScript and Flash content pose serious problems for web archivists.
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Saving the Smithsonian’s Web
- Date: August 25, 2011
- Description: This post is an update to Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig's post “Archiving the Smithsonian’s Presence on the Internet” from September 2, 2010. The Smithsonian Institution has had a presence on the Internet for more than sixteen years. It’s come a long way since then. Documenting the Smithsonian’s various websites falls under the purview of the Smithsonian Institution Archives...but how
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Five Tips for Designing Preservable Websites
- Date: August 2, 2011
- Description: Here at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, we take pride in preserving the Institution’s history, including its sizable web presence. While various offices at the Smithsonian create and back up the contents of their websites, the Archives also crawls each website using Heritrix, an open-source tool created by the Internet Archive, to capture content in an archival format.