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Searcher
May 2002
David Mattison |
Images of History on the Web While one can use image search engines to retrieve historical photographs, the lack of precision caused by keyword searching and the limitations of the general search engines to target historic photographs lead to wasted time and effort. Other search strategies are described here...   |
Information Today
June 17, 2013 |
Gale-Smithsonian Partnership's Magazine Archive Goes Live Earlier this year, Gale, part of Cengage Learning, announced a partnership with the Smithsonian Institution to create library and academic resources by digitizing some of the Smithsonian's collections. |
D-Lib
January 2006
Martin Kalfatovic |
Galaxy of Knowledge: Art & Design Galaxy of Knowledge, is Smithsonian Institution Libraries' portal to its collections and to a wide array of exceptional Internet resources. |
Information Today
March 11, 2013
Marydee Ojala |
Bringing the Smithsonian to a Library Near You, Thanks to Cengage Learning A licensing agreement between the Smithsonian Institution and Gale, part of Cengage Learning, will see Gale digitizing some Smithsonian archives and creating searchable databases, available by subscription for libraries of all types. |
Smithsonian
July 2005 |
Through Our Readers' Eyes Smithsonian's second annual photo contest generates more than 30,000 entries. The winning photographs are in this issue. |
Information Today
June 25, 2013 |
Gale Debuts Four Archives for 19th-Century Research Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Gale's worldwide, multiyear digitization program, offers rare 19th-century primary sources such as newspapers, maps, and photographs from more than 80 institutions around the world. |
Smithsonian
May 2005
Lawrence M. Small |
From the Secretary - Science Matters The Institution decides to focus on four basic scientific questions. |
Smithsonian
May 2004
Tessa DeCarlo |
A Fresh Look at Diane Arbus A new retrospective featuring an unprecedented number of the troubled photographer's images makes the case for her innovative artistry. |
Smithsonian
September 2007
Carolyn Kleiner Butler |
"It Felt Like a Real Discovery" Six decades after the death of an unheralded New York City municipal photographer, a researcher stumbles upon his forgotten negatives. |
D-Lib
May 2000 |
The Department of Entomology National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution's Department of Entomology web site was designed primarily for researchers in the field of entomology. |
Science News
September 3, 2005 |
Changing Earth Developed by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, this Web site focuses on Earth's history. |
Outside
September 2009
Rob Haggart |
This Photo Is Lying to You Like so many seemingly impossible shots you see these days, it's a digital creation -- which is bad for photography and even worse for our concept of reality. |
Smithsonian
January 2005
Owen Edwards |
The Object at Hand - Freeze Frame Beginning in the 1880s, amateur photographer Wilson A. Bentley revealed the hidden structure of falling flakes. |
Salon.com
November 29, 1999
Joe Gioia |
Elliott Erwitt Observing art with an artful observer. |
Science News
September 10, 2005 |
Dinosaurs! The Smithsonian Institution's dinosaur website lets on-line visitors peruse through their collection as well as view the evolution of the dinosaur. |
Lucire
June 5, 2012 |
A new take on Newton Lola Saab attends the Helmut Newton exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris, the first retrospective held in the city since the photographer's unexpected death in 2004 |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2015
Parilla & Blase |
The Value of Flexibility on Long-term Value of Grant Funded Projects The Field Book Project is an initiative to increase accessibility to field book content that documents natural history. |
Smithsonian
July 2007
Cristian Samper |
Life on the Web Over the next five years, the Encyclopedia of Life will generate a million Web pages, help digitize a large portion of scientific literature, generate educational materials for schools and universities, and contribute to new scientific analysis and synthesis. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2013
Nakasone & Sheffield |
Descriptive Metadata for Field Books: Methods and Practices of the Field Book Project We explain the descriptive metadata used for field books, which share characteristics of museum, archives, and library objects, and explain why schemas were chosen, and how they are used. |
Geotimes
August 2006 |
Geomedia On exhibit: The Traveling Smithsonian... Books: Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology... The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather and the Destruction of Civilizations... |
Entrepreneur
July 2004
Paul & Sarah Edwards |
Where the Action Is A mobile photography business can go a long way if you know where you're going. |
Smithsonian
June 2007 |
Prize Pictures This year's grand-prize winner of the Annual Photo Contest is a Natural World entry of the Tukituki River Valley in New Zealand. The photographer is 18-year-old Joelle Linhoff, of Minnetonka, Minnesota. |
Geotimes
April 2004
Richard Fiske |
Geomedia Book review: The Foreign Founder of the Smithsonian... Global Mars Maps... |
Information Today
March 21, 2011 |
New National Portal to Historic Collections American Heritage and the American Association for State and Local History are developing a new National Portal to Historic Collections, a system that allows searches through dozens of historic collections. |
BusinessWeek
May 2, 2005
Thane Peterson |
Photography's Golden Age As digital and color processes have advanced, more artists are experimenting with the medium -- and prices for top work have soared. But study up before buying, because there are many nuances to take into account. |
Smithsonian
May 2005
Molly Roberts |
Indelible Images - Model Family Sally Mann's unflinching photographs of her children have provoked controversy, but one of her now-grown daughters wonders what all the fuss was about. |
Smithsonian
July 2005
Lawrence M. Small |
Guiding Light The Smithsonian's new palm-size computers, known as SIguides, show videos and maps to lead visitors around--even to a good cup of joe. |
Smithsonian
February 2005
Helen Starkweather |
One Per Customer The Met partnered with the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery to display 14 of Gilbert Stuart's 100 portraits of the nation's first president. |
D-Lib
March 2000 |
American Memory Historical Collection Most of the items within American Memory are primary source documents such as photographs, manuscripts and maps; items which often provide a first hand view of life in the United States. |
D-Lib
June 2006 |
D-Lib Featured Collection June 2006: Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation A new database from the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation will show the public where to find thousands of invention-related documents and collections. |
Science News
December 18, 2004 |
Dynamic Earth Rocks and minerals are the stars of this lively, interactive on-line exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History. |
IDB America
October 2002 |
Children's photography highlights the environment The hilltop village of Yuscaran, in southern Honduras, was the setting for a ceremony Sept. 7 to inaugurate an exhibition of photographs by 22 school children aged 8 to 12. The photographs were produced as part of a Workshop on Environmental Photography. |
D-Lib
June 2009
Cindy Boeke |
Southern Methodist University's Digital Collections Bringing Central University Libraries' Special Collections to the World |
Smithsonian
February 2007
Lawrence M. Small |
Out of Africa This month a special collection -- representing most of Africa's major artistic traditions -- goes spectacularly on view at Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art. |
Smithsonian
November 2005
Richard Ellis |
35 Who Made a Difference: Clyde Roper He's spent his life chasing a sea monster that's never been taken alive -- Architeuthis, the giant squid. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2012
Zarro & Hall |
Exploring Social Curation This work investigates social curating activities on the website Pinterest, and relates them to digital libraries. |
PC Magazine
September 13, 2006
John C. Dvorak |
Photography and the Truth Photos of the war in Lebanon were enhanced with additional smoke. Done competently, nobody would have cared. |
Smithsonian
May 2007
Owen Edwards |
Doodle Dandy With a few deft strokes, Saul Steinberg turned institutional letterhead into signature works of whimsy. |
HHMI Bulletin
Spring 2013
Lisa Chiu |
Beautiful Beasts Igor Siwanowicz is a scientist and photographer who captures his insect subjects in extreme close-up with a digital camera and creates haunting, fluorescent images of others with a confocal microscope. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
Robert W. Lucky |
Digital Photographs Digitization has altered the way we think about photography and photographs. Digital pictures have become malleable throwaways that we relentlessly save. |
Popular Mechanics
December 19, 2008
Davin Coburn |
Can You Put a Price on Space History? For NASA's Space Shuttle, It's About $42 Million Once the space shuttle fleet retires the shuttles will be ready for purchase. But even for the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, the shuttles come at a hefty price -- about $42 million each. |
Information Today
November 17, 2015 |
USGS Provides Mapping Tool for Field Photographs The USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) made part of its collection of field photographs publicly available in the Land Cover Trends Field Photo Map portal. |
