Results for "Smithsonian Transcription Center"
Ecology of the Transcription Center at the Archives
- Date: September 4, 2014
- Description: Learning the basis of landscape ecology to understand how the Transcription Center and the Smithsonian Institution Archives community of #volunpeers operates as a system.
Increasing Access: The Smithsonian Transcription Center
- Date: August 28, 2014
- Description: How the projects are selected for inclusion in the Smithsonian Transcription Center and how the digital volunteers who contribute their work help make collections accessible.
Can You Relate? Connecting SIA Collections with Themes in the Transcription Center
- Date: July 16, 2013
- Description: How Transcription Center themes open connections for Smithsonian Archives' collections that create relatedness, unveil stories, and ask new questions.
Hidden in Plain Sight: Reading Between the Lines with the Smithsonian Transcription Center Volunteers
- Date: February 24, 2015
- Description: As Smithsonian Transcription Center volunteers unlock the stories from the Archives’ collections, we find ways to share the work of women in science hidden in the digitized pages.
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
Coming Soon to the Transcription Center: Department of Invertebrate Zoology
- Date: November 15, 2016
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: See what’s in store for the Transcription Center from the invertebrate zoology collections!
- SI History Bibliography
Exploring the Smithsonian Institution Transcription Center
- Date: 2016
- Creator: Decker, Juilee
- Creator: Decker, Juilee
- Blog Post
Celebrate Women’s History Month with the Smithsonian Transcription Center!
- Date: March 9, 2021
- Creator: Jessica Scott
- Description: Help us transcribe the records of groundbreaking Smithsonian entomologist Doris Holmes Blake.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Meghan Ferriter
- Date: August 16, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Dr. Meghan Ferriter, a scholar in online communities, grew the Smithsonian's Transcription Center from 1000 to 9000 volunteers spanning the globe, and rallied the community to help the Smithsonian make over 300,000 pages of primary source documents searchable online! #Groundbreaker
Baird's Network
- Date: September 2, 2014
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A look at Spencer F. Baird's tenure at the Smithsonian establishing a network of collectors to launch the Smithsonian's first official museum.
Talk Story: Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
- Date: May 18, 2021
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: A look back at the history of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in honor of Asian Pacific American heritage Month.
Link Love: 2/12/2016
- Date: February 12, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: You can now download hi-res images of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings, sketches, and letters. [via Open Culture and Vincent Van Gogh Museum]Speaking of Van Gogh, the Art Institute of Chicago has recreated the bedroom in his famous painting and it is now for rent on Air BnB. [via Colossal]More enjoyable art browsing brought to you by technology! Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of