Results for "Video games"
- Blog Post
Games People Play, Then Save
- Date: November 22, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Where Will This Lead? Exhibits, Zoos and Video-dating
- Date: January 14, 2020
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: Investigating digital files from the 1980s turns up software that let people play matchmaker–for endangered species. Let’s see where this leads.
- Blog Post
Digital Video Preservation: Further Challenges for Preserving Digital Video and Beyond
- Date: August 16, 2011
- Description: As one can expect, the complexity of digital video provides a few more factors to track and assess when compared with analog moving image counterparts in the archive.
Link Love: 9/28/2012
- Date: September 28, 2012
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
She Blinded Me With . . . Software?
- Date: March 7, 2013
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: In this interview, Roberta Williams describes how she creates the story and graphics for a computer game, King's Quest.
Link Love: 8/12/2016
- Date: August 12, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Reconstructing a former slave house in our National Museum of African American History and Culture. [via Atlantic]Cheating was common at the Olympics in ancient Greece. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Citizen science at its best: the app, iNaturalist, is actually helping scientists discover new species! [via NPR]Book-lovers rejoice! You may live longer. [via Guardian]Download 1000's
- Webpage
Hidden Expedition: Smithsonian Hope Diamond; Hidden Expedition: Smithsonian Castle
- Date: March 10, 2022
- Description: Hidden object games
- Blog Post
Picture Perfect? Not All the Games We Play
- Date: June 9, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: While we at the Photography Initiative like to argue that photography changes everything, it’s not always the case. On June 2nd, in a controversial ninth inning call, baseball umpire Jim Joyce denied Detroit Tigers’ pitcher Armando Galarraga a shot at making history for pitching a “perfect” game. Joyce—from his point of view behind first base—saw a batter hit a ball, make it
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 13-182, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Website Records, 2005-2013
- Date: 2005 2005-2013
- Creator: Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 13-044, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Website Records, 2011
- Date: 2011
- Creator: Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Preservation of Executable Files
- Date: July 24, 2012
- Description: As archives begin to receive executable files, archives must think about if and how to preserve them so their content lasts.
- Document
Smithsonian in Popular Culture | Smithsonian Institution Archives