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What are You Watching?
Kimberly Springer, Intern, Digital Services Division The Smithsonian Channel collection of videos that the Smithsonian Institution Archives is preserving is so varied and, at times, so out of the...
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Link Love: 8/23/2013
For your use: a new guide to archiving digital video. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]An interesting intersection between artists, museums, and digital records: The XFR STN at the New Museum...
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Calling All First Ladies
Kathryn Begeja, Intern, Digital Services Division Imagine: It's 1809 and you are tasked with traveling by carriage across unpaved city streets to deliver correspondence to society’s elites. Are you a...
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Link Love: 5/17/2019
Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.Conservators at the Library of Congress are...
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Sneak Peek 5/20/2019
Demolition of roads on the National Mall during conversion of roadways (Washington and Adams drives) to gravel walkways for pedestrians, October 28, 1975, by Jim Wallace, SIA Acc. 11-009,...
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Preserving Smithsonian World, The First Steps
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.When Smithsonian Productions ceased operations in...
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Judy Gradwohl
Judy Gradwohl was a researcher, curator, environmental policy specialist, digital content developer, and leader at the Smithsonian, 1985–2016. She conducted research at the Smithsonian Tropical...
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You Spin Me Round - Frisbee Festivals on the Mall
Starting in 1977, the National Air and Space Museum, with assistance from the International Frisbee Association, Wham-O Manufacturing Company, volunteer instructors from several states, and the...
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Link Love: 5/24/2019
Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.Mark the 100th anniversary of the passage...
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Sneak Peek 5/27/2019
Exterior view of South Shed, looking northeast with Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle, in view, April 18, 1974. Built in 1898, the South Shed was used for the preparation of exhibition...
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Hold on Loosely
In honor of National Paper Clip Day, we asked for help from our fellow institutions to show off their paper clip and fastener collections. So.....♪just hold on loosely, But maybe let go, If you cling...
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Katherine Ralls
Dr. Katherine Ralls, Senior Research Zoologist Emerita, Center for Conservation Genomics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, was one of the first scientists hired at the Smithsonian's National...
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Some more IIIF-y Collections
The Smithsonian Institution Archives begins to further implement the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF).About a year ago, I wrote a post to introduce our new collection viewer....
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Link Love: 5/31/2019
Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.An animal behaviorist found the fossilized...
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Sneak Peek 6/3/2019
Secretary-elect Lonnie G. Bunch III after his appointment as associate chair of the Department of Social and Cultural History at National Museum of American History, October 4, 1991, by Laurie...
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Rolling Up Our Cardigans with Record Unit 95
Emily Niekrasz and Marguerite RobyThanks to a generous grant from the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, the Archives will digitize, catalog, and make available 7,500 historic photographs of the...
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Laurie M. Penland
Laurie M. Penland, Diving Officer for the Smithsonian Scientific Diving Program, has traveled the globe providing diving support and training since 2005. She is also a professional photographer,...
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