Results for "Smithsonian Institution. SIRIS Management Committee"
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.
Link Love: 8/31/2012
- Date: August 31, 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.
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“Dear Sir”: Letters to the Smithsonian, 1948-1971
- Date: August 21, 2018
- Description: In 1956, Helena M. Weiss received a letter asking for information about “how to capture them, also how to raise them… what to put them in, also what to feed them.” Interestingly, the letter-writer neglected to specify what he or she meant by “them,” leaving Weiss only to guess what exactly the inquiry was referring to. From 1948 to 1956, Weiss was Chief of the Office of
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Amy Kotkin
- Date: March 23, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
But all I've got is a photograph . . . or an autograph?
- Date: April 29, 2014
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: Watch how we make invisible Beatles’ autographs visible with Reflectance Transform Imaging, a technique for forensic document examination.
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“Smithsonian Station”: The Metro Station that Almost Wasn’t
- Date: July 5, 2016
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: A station for the Metro, Washington DC’s subway system, was eliminated from early plans but protest by the Smithsonian ensured it would be built.
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The Born-Digital Diaries: “Interrogate the Floppy!”
- Date: April 28, 2020
- Description: As an intern with the Smithsonian Institution Archives, I developed strategies that would make our born-digital collections more accessible to the researcher and enhance discoverability.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ann Kaupp
- Date: May 4, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
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Author! Author!
- Date: June 20, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Back in December, I wrote a post about Emory University’s efforts to make the writer Salman Rushdie’s digital files available to fans, researchers, and interested parties. A couple of days ago, I came across an interesting report about a gathering, an “unconference,” that was sponsored by the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, which
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Priscilla L. Strain
- Date: November 6, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Priscilla L. Strain has worked for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Center for Earth and Planetary Studies since 1974 as a Research Assistant, 1974-79, Geologist, 1979-87, and Program Manager, 1987–present. She is currently the curator of the museum’s lunar rock collection and manages the center’s exhibits and programs. #Groundbreaker
What Our Experts Want You to Know About Digitization
- Date: May 19, 2020
- Description: Our digitization experts answer questions about the complicated and time-consuming process of digitizing our collections.
Link Love: 10/16/2015
- Date: October 16, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.