Results for "YouTube (Electronic resource)"
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Archiving the Smithsonian’s presence on the Internet
- Date: September 2, 2010
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Five Tips for Designing Preservable Websites
- Date: August 2, 2011
- Description: Here at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, we take pride in preserving the Institution’s history, including its sizable web presence. While various offices at the Smithsonian create and back up the contents of their websites, the Archives also crawls each website using Heritrix, an open-source tool created by the Internet Archive, to capture content in an archival format.
The Starting Line
- Date: June 19, 2014
- Description: From April 7-18, 2014, JA Pryse was in residence with the Smithsonian Institution Archives fulfilling the Smithsonian Affiliations Visiting Professional Program fellowship awarded in January of this year. Over the information packed two weeks a number of innovative digital processes were gathered which are valuable to the Oklahoma Historical Society Research Division’s present
Some Digital Archivist Career Advice
- Date: March 1, 2018
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: This is the second post in our series on career advice for the aspiring archives professional. Each edition features information and career advice from a different member of the Archives team, regarding what they do, how they got here, and how you can too. Check out the first , and don’t be afraid to let us know who you might like to hear from next! Many picture an archivist
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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.
Some Archival Career Advice
- Date: April 26, 2012
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Commonly asked questions and answers about becoming an archivist.
Join us for #AskAnArchivist - Wednesday, October 4!
- Date: October 3, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Tomorrow, to mark Archives Month, we will be on Twitter for #AskAnArchivist! We will answer any questions you may have about archives, from preserving your photos to favorites in our collection. Get your questions ready for this amazing line-up!William Bennett – Conservation Specialist, Smithsonian Institution Archives, attends to the physical needs of our archival collections
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For Your Viewing Enjoyment
- Date: September 15, 2016
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Some highlights of digitized video held in the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections.
Link Love: 1/15/16
- Date: January 15, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Harvard's pigment collection. [via Collossal]Also with gorgeous colors, a 700+ page Dutch book from 1692 documenting "every color in the spectrum." [via Open Culture] A new online exhibit examining what it's like to work in the U.S. on a H-1B visa from the Smithsonian's Asian Pacific American Center. [via Smithsonian Magazine] Later this year, scientists (including our own
Remembering the Reopening of Two Smithsonian Museums
- Date: July 1, 2021
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: After extensive renovations of the Old Patent Office Building that houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture held a grand opening July 1, 2006.
Link Love: 9/18/2015
- Date: September 18, 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.
Searching and Using Web Archives
- Date: April 9, 2019
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: There are many ways to find and use archived web collections.