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    Transparency in the Archives: From Our Earliest Days

    • Date: August 16, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: From the point in 1838 when the United States Congress accepted James Smithson’s bequest, it was recognized as a cultural resource, a public trust held by the federal government. Smithson had stipulated that the funds be used for an “establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.” Being a cultural resource set aside for public use, the government bore the

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    Keeping up with our #Volunpeers – SIA’s Transcription Center Accomplishments

    • Date: September 14, 2017
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: When it comes to the Smithsonian Transcription Center, there’s always more to discover, more material with which to engage. It can be easy to lose track of just how much our crowd of #volunpeers accomplished and why it is so important to us. We’re not done yet, but after four years, it’s a good time to take a step back and see what has been accomplished through the effort of

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    Is there a place for paleography in archives?

    • Date: January 23, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: As we digitize the Archives’ collections to make them available online, I am constantly being exposed to handwriting from the past two centuries. As a result, I have a deeper appreciatiation of how many different things influence the way a person’s writing appears on the page, things beyond the quality of their penmanship. Writing on the deck of a ship, on horseback or on

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    Together We Can Meet The Email Preservation and Access Challenge

    • Date: June 2, 2016
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: How the archives and records management communities is facing the challenge of email preservation.

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    Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

    • Date: August 15, 2019
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Meet the newest members of the Archives team in our continuing series on introducing new staff.

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    Getting Your Due, Samuel Pierpont Langley

    • Date: November 28, 2017
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: It can be so frustrating to put great effort into something, and then to have your work and achievements called into question. I can't begin to imagine how frustrated Samuel Pierpont Langley was in 1903. By that time, he had spent over forty years studying astrophysics and aerodynamics. His work on astronomically-derived time measurement in the late 1860's is the heart of the

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    Cryptic Content in The Stacks

    • Date: December 28, 2017
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Collections here at the Archives span over 171 years of Smithsonian history and include personal papers of the many notable people who have been part of its work in science and culture. Cryptic and coded content is not unusual here. One would expect special vocabulary in the accessions of scientific observations. For example, notations of depth, temperature, and sounding and

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    Almost here … World Migratory Bird Day 2019!

    • Date: May 9, 2019
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: While only two years old, World Migratory Bird Day is just one of the latest evolutions in conservation awareness. Related celebrations go back more than twenty-six years and draw on over a century of research.

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