Results for "Values"
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Battle for the Castle
- Date: November 15, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Science Service: Up Close
- Date: May 19, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Each Smithsonian Institution Archives collection has a life story. That narrative, much like the biography of a person, can explain how a collection's photographs, letters, and documents relate to each other. Closer inspection may also reveal hidden connections to other archival materials and can help in identifying photographers and writers. This new blog series will turn a
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Photos Can Turn Down the Heat
- Date: October 20, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Natural Gas Fracing, by Melissa Peffs."][/caption] Photography is valued for, among other things, seeing what the human eye cannot. From medical scans to red light cameras to artworks made by image makers offering up new perspectives, photography reminds us that there’s always more to observe than we’re physically able to
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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Avatar. A Photographic Game-Changer?
- Date: January 20, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: A few days ago, I went to an IMAX 3D showing of Avatar to see for myself if the movie is a “game-changer,” as many have suggested. And, it is, but in a way no one seems to be focusing on—the way it acknowledges and exploits photography’s power to shape both everyday and alternate realities. What struck me, as soon as the movie started, was how sophisticated the film’s
Miss Margaret W. Moodey in Charge
- Date: May 5, 2020
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: For forty years, from around 1900 to 1941, Margaret W. Moodey (1862-1948) worked as a scientific aide in the Department of Geology at the United States National Museum. Her colleagues came to value her experience identifying, classifying, and cataloging geological specimens, which over the years, included gems and precious stones, fossil vertebrates and plants, and
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Save Our African American Treasures
- Date: March 29, 2011
- Description: [caption id="attachment_12162" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="A participant discusses a lock of hair from a member of her family with NMAAHC staff at a Save Our African American Treasures event held in Detroit, Michigan, by Michael Barnes, Courtesy of The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture."][/caption] [caption
Joseph Henry Hypes Hypsometers
- Date: October 29, 2019
- Description: Although initially skeptical about the effectiveness of the hypsometer, Secretary Joseph Henry soon recognized the value of the instrument, which he discovered from his colleagues in the scientific field.
Open Minds Open Doors
- Date: March 15, 2012
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: The life and achievements of May (Mary) Gorslin Preston Slosson, one of the first women to receive a PhD.
Spotlight: Herman Henry Diebitsch and Josephine Diebitsch Peary
- Date: June 24, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: We’re taking a closer look at Smithsonian clerk Herman Henry Diebitsch and his daughter, Arctic explorer Josephine Diebitsch Peary.
One Lens for Multiple Archives: A Pan-Institutional Survey of Born Digital Holdings
- Date: May 28, 2015
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: Summary of pan-Smithsonian survey of born digital collections holdings at archives and museums at the Smithsonian.
Finding the Digital Treasures
- Date: November 1, 2012
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Highlighting some of the Archives favorite digital objects in its collections.