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      A Medal-y of Materials: Preserving a Small, yet Robust, Collection

      • Date: August 31, 2017
      • Description: As the Preservation Intern at the Archives this summer, my main project was part of a massive re-organization of the oversized map cases at the Archives. An introduction to that project can be found in blog posts by previous interns, Caitria Sunderland and Margaret Rose Hunt. However, when taking breaks from the cool climate of collections storage, I worked on rehousing the

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      Link Love: 8/23/2013

      • Date: August 23, 2013
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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      I.D. This! Solid Ink Inkjet Print

      • Date: June 18, 2019
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: Material and process identification is the key to a robust preservation strategy!

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      An Intern’s Perspective on Preserving Scrapbooks and Conserving Blueprints

      • Date: August 30, 2018
      • Description: Preservation intern discusses working with oversize materials in the Archives collection, including information on the creation of custom enclosures, surface cleaning of blueprints, and humidification.

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    9. Link Love: 02/12/2021

      • Date: February 12, 2021
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    11. Whiteboards and poster boards are covered in post-its. It’s difficult to make out what they say. Temporary desks are below the boards.

      Take a picture, it’ll last longer

      • Date: November 2, 2010
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: On what better day than Election Day to follow up on that tidbit I dropped a couple weeks ago regarding a consultation about then-candidate Barack Obama’s dry-erase boards, a recent acquisition by the National Museum of African American History and Culture? These artifacts, along with archival material and other realia (in archives terms: a man-made three-dimensional object)

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    13. A computer window titled DArchInfo with clickable heading tabs labeled Search, Query Results, Clipboard, SQL, and logoutThe first column contains accession numbers for Smithonian Archives born-digital holdings (i.e. 00-002). The second column contains names of format types (i.e. AppleDouble Resource Fork, etc.). The third column is the number of each type of file format in that accession (i.e. there are 93 Acrobat PDF/A files).

      Assessing File Format Risk for Born-Digital Preservation Planning

      • Date: August 3, 2021
      • Description: In addition to physical damage and deterioration of storage media, the technological complexity and dependency of electronic records make them uniquely vulnerable to loss, corruption, and alteration (both accidental and malicious). To achieve long-term preservation of fragile born-digital materials, digital archivists need a plan.

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    15. Highlights from the 2018 Society of American Archivists Conference

      • Date: September 11, 2018
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Here is a look at some of the most interesting presentations Archives staff attended at this year's Society of American Archivists conference.

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    17. A 2002 press release about an exhibition at the National Museum at Natural History. It was written and saved as a Microsoft Word document.

      Word-processing files need love, too

      • Date: December 31, 2015
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Word-processing documents are important to preserve as well as other digital items.

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      Link Love: 11/12/2010

      • Date: November 12, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="Steven Cohn, the Smithsonian’s Office of Safety, Health and Environmental Management and the museum’s representative Industrial Hygienist, tests Owney's fur for arsenic, lead and mercury. Courtesy of the National Postal Museum "Pushing the Envelope" blog."][/caption] More interesting preservation challenges. We’ve covered

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    21. Disk Diving: A Born Digital Collections Survey at the Smithsonian

      • Date: September 13, 2012
      • Description: Details of a physical inventory/survery that is ongoing at the Smithsonian. The project is focused on finding and documenting born digital items at different archival units.

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    23. Nora Lockshin, Senior Conservator at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, consults on preservation goals with archivists & collection managers throughout the Smithsonian and researches modern materials found in archives including plastics. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Nora Lockshin

      • Date: December 2, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Nora Lockshin, Senior Conservator at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, consults on preservation goals with archivists & collection managers throughout the Smithsonian and researches modern materials found in archives including plastics. #Groundbreaker

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