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    SIA Acc. 17-165, Smithsonian Institution, Website Records, 2014-2015

    • Date: 2014 2014-2015
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  3. Observations taken from 9 p.m. August 3th to 2 a.m. August 9, 1872 in Holt County, Missouri, of an aurora. Detailed, timed observations on a single sized document in purple ink.

    The Increase and Diffusion of Data

    • Date: October 19, 2021
    • Description: Research has been at the core of Smithsonian’s mission from the beginning, and sharing that research—through activities like publishing papers and data—is still key to fulfilling that mission for the “increase and diffusion of knowledge.”

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  5. An illustration of the Children’s Room in the Smithsonian Castle. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1901. Smithsonian Libraries.

    Knowledge Begins in Wonder: The Design Behind the Smithsonian Children’s Room

    • Date: March 1, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: The history of the Smithsonian’s Children’s Room, a project led by Smithsonian Secretary Langley and famous interior designer Grace Lincoln Temple.

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  7. Helen Miles Davis (left), Thomas Robert Henry (center) and Jane Stafford (right), 1942. Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s. Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-3802.

    Science Service, Up Close: Covering the Atom, August 1945

    • Date: August 6, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Details of Helen Miles Davis and Science Service coverage of the atomic bomb.

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    SIA Acc. 15-015, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Chief Information Officer, Website Records, 2013-2014

    • Date: 2013 2013-2014
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Chief Information Officer
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  11. Side by side comparison of Infobox on Wikipedia for Mary Agnes Chase (left) and Google Search results showing same data (right).

    Improve #WomenInSTEM Representation with Wikidata!

    • Date: July 18, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: We're ready to take our women in science to the next level! I hope botanist Mary Agnes Chase would be proud.This journey started with our history of science and the media research fellow, Marcel LaFollette, who created basic records for female scientists she uncovered in the Archives' Science Service collection, including many who worked at the Smithsonian. We then created a

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Eunice Newton Foote

    • Date: May 3, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Help us find a photograph of Eunice Newton Foote! Scientist Eunice Newton Foote, in 1856, was the 1st to speculate that modest increases in CO2 concentration could result in atmospheric warming, and was a contributor to the Smithsonian's weather data project.

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  15. Message sent by Alfred Vail and transcribed by Samuel Morse.

    A Forgotten History: Alfred Vail and Samuel Morse

    • Date: May 24, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  17. Blog Post

    Shape-Shifting and Sharing Data

    • Date: June 27, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: When institutions archive data, they capture and organize it in digital formats that make the most sense to them, based upon their specific group of users, needs, and technical options that are available at a given point in time. But what happens if, for example, institutions decide that it makes sense to enhance their mission by their presenting data collections in less

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  19. Rolling Up Our Cardigans with Record Unit 95

    • Date: June 4, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Thanks to a generous grant from the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, the Archives will digitize, catalog, and make available 7,500 historic photographs of the Smithsonian from Record Unit 95.

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  21. Circular tin cans for film that are stacked on top of one another. Slight rust is visible,

    Preserving Smithsonian World, The First Steps

    • Date: May 21, 2019
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: As a result of a generous grant, the Archives will soon catalogue and rehouse around 1,750 at-risk audiovisual media related to Smithsonian World.

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  23. Cover of the supplementary material for March of Science, an episode of the radio program The World is Yours, issued January 15, 1940.

    The World is Yours: Smithsonian on the Radio

    • Date: June 8, 2017
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: The Smithsonian's "The World is Yours" series was one of the most successful educational radio programs of of the 1930s.

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