Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Office of Information"
Link Love: 9/5/2014
- Date: September 5, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Fostering Collaboration for the Public Good: Sphagnum Moss and WWI
- Date: May 23, 2017
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: A look at one of the many ways the Smithsonian’s mission to increase and diffuse knowledge brought scientific knowledge to aid the public good.
Link Love: 3/16/2012
- Date: March 16, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Save the Date for the 2011 Smithsonian Archives Fair
- Date: September 26, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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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.
Link Love: 9/23/2011
- Date: September 23, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Just Me and My Photos: Zoe Martindale SIA Image Cataloger
- Date: April 16, 2013
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution has roughly six thousand volunteers and without them the work we do would not be possible. Here at the Smithsoinan Institution Archives, we have dedicated volunteers who help fufill our mission. One such volunteer is Zoe Martindale, who for sixteen years has carefully cataloged thousands of images and helped get them online for the public.
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Link Love: 6/3/2011
- Date: June 3, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="186" caption="Waistcoat, France, 1790, Silk embroidery on silk plain weave, linen back, 60 x 50 cm (23 5/8 x 19 11/16 in.), Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf, Photo: Steve Tague, Courtesy of the Cooper-Hewitt
Digital Video Preservation: Continuing the Conversation
- Date: January 3, 2013
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Preserving digital video is no easy task, but fortunately, there are tools that can help.
Mary Farnham Miller, A Lifelong Botanist
- Date: August 17, 2021
- Description: Learn more about botanist Mary Farnham Miller who held positions in the Sullivant Moss Society and the Smithsonian’s Department of Botany in the early twentieth century.
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Link Love: 7/1/2011
- Date: July 1, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Note: I'll be on vacation for the next two weeks, so look for Link Love to start again on July 22nd! We’ve been blogging about the Civil War and the Smithsonian for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, and others across the Smithsonian have been doing the same. Over at NPR’s Picture show blog, photography curator Shannon Perich shares some incredible animated Civil War-era
Link Love: 11/18/2011
- Date: November 18, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.