The Smithsonian, along with nine other organizations, is a founding partner of the Future of Information Alliance. FIA, hosted by the University of Maryland, is described by co-director Ira Chinoy more »
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As it turns out, not all vampires are pointy-toothed Transylvanian counts or lovelorn, sparkly teenagers. Sometimes, they're squid. The vampire squid, or Vampyroteuthis infernalis (formerly Melanoteuthis lucens, as more »
On September 30, two of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries' staff attended the American Library Association's LITA (Library and Information Technology) National Forum. The three-day conference was titled "Rivers of Data, more »
Blogs across the Smithsonian will give an inside look at the Institution’s archival collections and practices during a month long blogathon in celebration of October’s American Archives Month. See additional more »
The Libraries invited Mano Marks, Senior Developer Advocate for Google’s Geo APIs, to visit Smithsonian Institution on Friday June 3rd. Mano graciously offered his time to run a hands-on demo/chat to talk about ways to visualize geographic information before he continued on to George Mason University to hold a workshop at THATCamp.
A recent article in BusinessWeek (http://buswk.co/h8pnfS) profiled a Japanese company that provides homes with some needed extra space. A recent startup, Bookscan, offers scanning of personal book collections in part more »