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  1. The Downloading Your Info under Facebook creates a ZIP file of your account.

    Maintaining Your Digital Presence Is More Than Updating Your Status

    • Date: January 29, 2015
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: There are a few ways to capture your information that you are posting on social media accounts.

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    See Here: 1/1/2013

    • Date: January 1, 2013
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: See Here: a weekly photo feature showcasing images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  5. Link Love: 10/5/2012

    • Date: October 5, 2012
    • 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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  7. Mori Arinori: Japanese Statesman

    • Date: May 30, 2013
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: In 1872, at the young age of twenty-five, Mori Arinori (1847-1889) traveled to America as the first Charge d’Affaires from the Meiji government. His trip included a visit to the Smithsonian where he established a close relationship with Smithsonian Secretary Joseph Henry.

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    Hot Topics in Archival Research, Winter 2018

    • Date: January 16, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_10581,size=200,left]Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been

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  11. Short GIF of zooming in on an otter image, next to a painting of a man.

    Some more IIIF-y Collections

    • Date: May 30, 2019
    • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives begins to further implement the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF).

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  13. Moonwatch volunteers tracking satellites, 1965, in Pretoria, South Africa for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Moonwatch Network, one of more than 100 teams worldwide.

    Thank you, Volunteers!

    • Date: April 23, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since the beginning. As our historian Pamela Henson likes to say, we have always relied on the kindness of strangers. A blog post in honor of Volunteer Appreciation Month 2015. Includes a list of Smithsonian crowdsourcing projects that volunteers can participate in.

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    Folklife Festival 2011: Smithsonian-Peace Corps Environmental Program

    • Date: July 7, 2011
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: The Smithsonian Folklife Festival will be held from June 30 to July 4 and July 7 to 11, 2011 on the National Mall. Read more about the history of the Folklife Festival here. At the Smithsonian Folklife Festival this year, the Peace Corps is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an Executive Order authorizing the Peace Corps to

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  17. Model of the Quadrangle Viewed from the Southwest, c. 1979.

    Queue the Quadrangle - South Mall Transformation

    • Date: November 20, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: A look at the Quadrangle complex of the Smithsonian that encompasses the Enid Haupt Garden, the National Museum of African Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

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    Everyone's a Curator, Now

    • Date: November 15, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Cybill Shepherd at the "Castle" during the filming of "Chances Are," where she plays an SI curator, 1988, by Jeff Tinsley, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 5, Negative Number: 88-10752-31. "][/caption] The frequency with which the words “curator” and “curating” pop up continues to

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  21. Three Cheers for Embedded Metadata

    • Date: February 28, 2012
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Metadata is a helpful tool. When you have embedded metadata, all the better when trying to figure out what something might be.

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    See Here: 11/16/2010

    • Date: November 16, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="Physicist Hans Albrecht Bethe (1906-2005) is shown being interviewed by John O’Neill (science journalist, New York Tribune), and William Laurence (science journalist, New York Times) at the George Washington University Conference on Theoretical Physics, January 1939, by Fremont Davis, Photographic print, Smithsonian

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