Results for "Optical disks"
- Blog Post
Return of…the Beast
- Date: October 31, 2019
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: In a return to the seasonal bonfire, we look at how fire and its suppression impacts boxed and unboxed optical disks.
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.
Burn This Disc: Treating Fire-Affected Optical Discs, Part III
- Date: November 4, 2021
- Description: This is the final part in a three-part series of blog posts about a research project on treating fire-affected optical discs. In this final post, we’ll summarize our research and outline possible next steps.
The End of the Beginning: A Born Digital Survey at the Smithsonian Institution
- Date: April 30, 2013
- Description: The CCPF’s Born Digital Survey wrapped up Phase I earlier this Spring, and has compiled the findings to paint a better picture of what rich resources remain unavailable in the Smithsonian’s collections.
- Blog Post
The Smithsonian’s First Radiometers
- Date: April 25, 2019
- Description: When curators at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History looked at seven radiometers in storage, they learned the instruments had been at the Smithsonian for nearly one hundred fifty years.