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Bain, Alan L. "Smithsonian Institution—Museum and Institutional Archives Programs." Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 3, no. 2 (2007): 155–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/155019060700300205.

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The Smithsonian Institution Archives is responsible for the Smithsonian's records of enduring value. Though the Institution was aware of the need to keep certain records permanently (dating back to 1852) and an archivist was first assigned the task of maintaining records and special collections in 1891, the first modern archives program did not begin until 1967. From its very beginning the Smithsonian collected personal papers and special collections and this trend has been continued by the Smithsonian Archives.
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Martinez, Katharine. "The Art Libraries and Research Resources of the Smithsonian Institution." Art Libraries Journal 13, no. 1 (1988): 9–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200005484.

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The Smithsonian Institution, a public organisation established in 1846 “for the increase and diffusion of knowledge”, includes ten museums and several research bureaux. Most but not all of the associated libraries are linked through the Smithsonian Institution Libraries; they include several art libraries which contribute significantly to the overall provision of art library service to the American people but do not of themselves constitute a “national art library”. Most of the Smithsonian’s libraries enter their records in a database (SIBIS) which is accessible online via OCLC. Co-ordinated collection development has been pursued since 1984. In two areas in particular, American and African art, Smithsonian libraries aim to provide a national service.
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LaHood, Marvin J., and Gore Vidal. "The Smithsonian Institution." World Literature Today 74, no. 1 (2000): 174. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40155430.

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Chin, Cecilia H., and lldiko P. DeAngelis. "Paying for services: experiences at the Smithonsonian Institute." Art Libraries Journal 22, no. 1 (1997): 20–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200010270.

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The Smithsonian Institution, a trust instrumentality of the United States, and the largest museum and research complex in the world, receives many outside permission requests to reproduce images in the Smithsonian Collections. Charging fees for photographic usage is a common practice in the United States, especially in art history and general museums. Beginning in 1992, the Smithonian established internal guidelines for changing such fees and for handling permission requests from outside sources. The procedures ensure that the Smithsonian recognises and respects the intellectual property rights associated with images in the collections and the terms of any pre-existing agreements. Great care is also taken to protect the Smithsonian’s name from use in any commercial context, to avoid the implication that the Institution endorses a product (or one product rather than another).
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Plotkin, Howard, and Roy Clarke. "The Controversial History of the Goose Lake, California, Meteorite." Earth Sciences History 31, no. 2 (2012): 229–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.31.2.w1ltq51n15241003.

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The Goose Lake meteorite, a 2,573 lb (1,167 kg) iron, was found by three deer hunters on lava beds in the Modoc National Forest in northeast California in October, 1938. Although several California persons wanted possession of the meteorite for various California institutions, under the powers of the 1906 Antiquities Act meteorites found on US federal lands were typically transferred to the US National Museum at the Smithsonian Institution and accessioned into the National Collection of Meteorites. With authorization from the US Department of Agriculture, the Smithsonian began a correspondence with one of the meteorite's finders to arrange for its retrieval. But the situation became complicated and controversial when meteorite collector/dealer Harvey H. Nininger (1887-1986), who harboured hopes that the meteorite might be on a parcel of private land in the National Forest, falsely presented himself to the finder as a Smithsonian agent, and was taken to the site of the meteorite. A survey showed the meteorite was on federal land, however, and the Smithsonian reluctantly allowed Nininger to oversee its recovery. During the time that the meteorite was on loan from the Smithsonian and on exhibit at the San Francisco World's Fair, considerable pressure from various California individuals and institutions was put on the Smithsonian to keep the meteorite in California, but it was accessioned into the Smithsonian's National Collection of Meteorites and shipped to Washington, DC. The controversial history of the Goose Lake meteorite affirmed the applicability of the Antiquities Act with regard to the disposition of meteorites found on US federal lands, and set the stage for the later court rulings involving the Old Woman meteorite, a large (2,753 kg) iron found on government land in California in 1976. Problematic ownership issues like those involving the Goose Lake meteorite exist in other countries besides the United States, and in other branches of natural history, especially paleontology. The Goose Lake meteorite is famous for its numerous and enigmatic large holes and cavities, and is a popular attraction at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.
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Lang, Michael A., and Anson H. Hines. "Smithsonian Institution Underwater Research." Marine Technology Society Journal 34, no. 4 (2000): 50–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.4031/mtsj.34.4.7.

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Boretzky, Felicia, Walter Forsberg, Siobhan Hagan, et al. "Increasing diffusion: Rediscovering the Smithsonian’s media collections through the Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative." Journal of Digital Media Management 13, no. 2 (2025): 124. https://doi.org/10.69554/mhmh2220.

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The Smithsonian Institution has collected, produced and exhibited audiovisual media for well over a century. This paper discusses how, during the last decade, the institution’s concerted efforts at inventorying and cataloguing the hundreds of thousands of analogue media objects in its collections have led to the development of the centralised Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative (AVMPI). As a pan-institutional service initiative, the AVMPI’s project team, media digitisation and conservation laboratories, and best practice workflows are advancing collections care and digital access activities across the Smithsonian’s 22 museums and research centres. Software such as Airtable and a new accessibility-friendly streaming video platform built by the Smithsonian are integral to these efforts.
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Billeck, Bill, Jacquetta Swift, John Beaver, Andrea Hunter, and TJ Ferguson. "Repatriation at the Smithsonian Institution." Anthropology News 51, no. 3 (2010): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-3502.2010.51325.x.

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Clarke, Roy S., Howard Plotkin, and Timothy J. McCoy. "Meteorites and the Smithsonian Institution." Geological Society, London, Special Publications 256, no. 1 (2006): 237–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/gsl.sp.2006.256.01.12.

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Lin, Meiying. "Book Review: Longhorned Woodboring Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae and Disteniidae): Primary Types of the Smithsonian Institution (edited by S. W. Lingafelter et al., Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Washington D.C., USA. 2014, 390 pages)." Zoological Systematics 41, no. 2 (2016): 241. https://doi.org/10.11865/zs.201624.

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Lin, Meiying (2016): Book Review: Longhorned Woodboring Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae and Disteniidae): Primary Types of the Smithsonian Institution (edited by S. W. Lingafelter et al., Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Washington D.C., USA. 2014, 390 pages). Zoological Systematics 41 (2): 241-241, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201624
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Buxton, Nancy L. "An American institution: the Smithsonian, 1846-1878." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/101169.

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In 1846, Congress created the Smithsonian Institution. Congressmen expected the Institution to advance the cause of American science as did Joseph Henry, the organization's first secretary. The Institution fulfilled that role in a manner consistent with its congressional mandate. Henry, however, believed that total compliance with Congress decreased the Institution's ability to shape American science. Congress, Henry thought, had split the Institution into too many departments, diluting its ability to encourage pure scientific research. This thesis traces the Smithsonian's development by examining congressional and early institutional records. It focuses on Congress, the first to leaders of the Smithsonian, Joseph Henry and Spencer F. Baird, and the community of American naturalists. As these groups interacted, they influenced the course of scientific endeavor carried forth by the Institution. This study concludes that the Smithsonian Institution afforded significant assistance to scientists, and it faithfully reflected the scientific and cultural environment of nineteenth-century America.<br>M.A.
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Plassart, Marie. "Penser le nationalisme aux Etats-Unis : les musées de la Smithsonian Institution, 1945-1980." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009LYO20068/document.

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A travers l’étude des musées de la Smithsonian Institution dans les décennies qui suivent la Seconde Guerre mondiale, cette thèse propose des pistes méthodologiques pour penser le nationalisme aux Etats-Unis. La Smithsonian Institution regroupe des activités de recherche, financées par des fonds indépendants et par des subsides fédéraux, et les Musées Nationaux, essentiellement financés par l’Etat fédéral. Ces musées sont pour la plupart situés sur le National Mall à Washington, dans le centre monumental de la capitale fédérale. Ils sont un observatoire privilégié du nationalisme : en effet, ils se situent à l’articulation entre le pouvoir fédéral et l’activité des professionnels des musées, ce qui permet d’évaluer le degré d’implication de l’Etat dans les Musées Nationaux et la contribution de ce dernier à l’entretien du sentiment national en leur sein. Par ailleurs, la création de nouveaux musées et de nouvelles expositions pose la question de la temporalité dans laquelle s’inscrivent les pratiques nationalistes. Enfin, le rôle des musées, entre explication des phénomènes universels et représentation de la nation, reflète la tension entre l’universel et le particulier qui fonde le nationalisme, compris comme une manière nationale d’être au monde<br>This dissertation focuses on the Smithsonian Museums in the decades following World War II and tests ways of conceptualizing nationalism in the United States. The Smithsonian Institution includes some research bureaus, which are funded with federal and independent funds, and the National Museums, mostly run with federal funds. Almost all National Museums are situated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., at the monumental heart of the federal capital. They provide an observatory of nationalism, as they are a contact zone between the federal power and museum people, which brings to light the degree to which the government gets involved in the National Museums and the federal contribution to the maintenance of national feelings through museums. Besides, the creation of new museums and new exhibitions suggests that nationalist practices develop within a specific time frame. Finally, as museums oscillate between the exhibition of universal phenomena and that of national features, they magnify the tension between universalism and particularism that is the basis for nationalism, defined as a national way of belonging to the world
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Taillandier, Catherine. "Conservation et préservation à la Smithsonian Institution : de la muséographie à la muséologie, 1846-1996." Toulouse 2, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999TOU20025.

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Depuis sa création en 1846, la Smithsonian Institution reflète l'évolution des rapports entre sociétés industrielles et traditionnelles, de la domination au respect. Tour à tour vitrines, encyclopédies, centres de recherche scientifique ou lieux de validation de l'idéologie nationale, les musées s'étaient éloignés de l'essence des objets pour n'en retenir que l'apparence, le plus souvent magnifiée par les techniques de conservation. Les années soixante, en remettant en question la pensée cartésienne et le concept d'apprentissage élitiste, contraignirent les conservateurs à intégrer dans leurs pratiques la préservation, l'éducation et l'éthique. Dès lors, l'objet muséal ne fut plus relique mais outil au service de la connaissance des sociétés plurielles, lien entre la raison, les croyances et les sentiments individuels et collectifs. Ainsi conçu, le musée du vingt-et-unième siècle sera tout à la fois mémoire du groupe et de l'individu, mémoire dynamique qui prend en compte le passé, le présent et l'avenir. Les cent quarante millions d'objets qui composent les collections des seize musées de la Smithsonian peuvent se combiner à l'infini pour porter, dans chaque exposition, un regard différent sur le monde. Muséographie et muséologie se complètent pour rapprocher les différences et faire en sorte que le multiculturalisme ne soit pas synonyme de juxtaposition mais d'enrichissement mutuel<br>Since its creation in 1846 the Smithsonian has followed the evolution of the relations between industrialized and traditional societies, relations that have evolved from domination to respect. By turns showcases, encyclopedias, scientific research centers and places to validate the national ideology, museums had lost the contact with the essence of the object, mostly concerned with its physical appearance, that was often magnified by the techniques of conservation. In the sixties. Cartesian thinking and the elitist education were questioned and, in their practices, curators had to take into account the preservation, as well as the educational role and the ethical dimension of the exhibits. Since then the museal object has no longer been a mere treasure but has enabled visitors to have access to the knowledge of communities in their diversity, it has become a link between rational thinking, beliefs and personal or collective feelings. The 21st century museum should be the memory of the group as well as that of the individual, a dynamic memory stretching between the past, the present and the future. The 140 million objects of the Smithsonian collections can be combined ad infinitum to present the world in different ways. Museography and museology join their competencies so that the multicultural exhibitions may not be a mere juxtaposition of differences but offer an opportunity to share experiences and knowledge
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Mathews, Stevie. "DIAGNOSING ANENCEPHALY IN ARCHAEOLOGY: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF NINE CLINICAL SPECIMENS FROM THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NATION." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2888.

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The inclusion of human fetal skeletons in the archaeological record can reveal much about past cultures' perception of life and death. The preservation of fetal remains in the archaeological record is a rarity, and the discovery of pathological skeletons is even rarer. A fetal skeleton from a Roman period cemetery (c. 31BC - 303AD) in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, displays what are thought to be classic skeletal indicators of the neural tube defect, anencephaly. The published literature concerning the skeletal diagnosis of anencephaly is scant so in order to diagnose this individual it is pertinent to create a diagnostic standard. The purpose of this thesis is twofold &#150; first to create a quantitative standard from which researchers can determine the presence of anencephaly in the archaeological record, thus ruling out trauma or taphonomic processes as reasons for missing cranial elements. The second objective of this research is to conduct a qualitative comparison in order to diagnose the individual from the Dakhleh Oasis. A comparative analysis of nine documented anencephalic skeletal remains housed at the Smithsonian Institute was conducted to create a diagnostic standard for the skeletal characteristics of anencephaly. The comparative analysis of the Dakhleh specimen supports the diagnosis of anencephaly.<br>M.A.<br>Department of Anthropology<br>Sciences<br>Anthropology MA
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Naujokaitis, Alina. ""Inside outer space exhibitions" : a museum intern's view of multi-sited exhibit performativity in Smithsonian Institution space culture /." Connect to online version, 2009. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/www/2009/.pdf.

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Smith, Sonny. "Low Risk, High Threat, Open Access Security in a Post 9-11 World: A Study of the Smithsonian Institution's Office of Protection Services." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28004.

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The events of 9-11 resulted in a slew of policy, procedural, and organizational changes within many government departments as the U.S. government took many steps to enhance security to prevent future terrorist attacks. The emphasis on high threat targets by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other government agencies, such as the White House, the Capitol and Congressional office buildings, major infrastructure and facilities within US cities, airline travel, ports and economic supply chains has generated a great deal of debate and attention. There are however, targets that are considered low risk situated in high threat areas that also provide open access to the public for which security professionals are responsible that should not be overlooked during the War on Terror. The question is how low risk targets in high threat areas should be protected? What resource distribution makes sense? What practices should be applied to achieve security? The purpose of this research is to look at one of these targets, the Smithsonian Institution and how the Smithsonian Institution's Office of Protection Services (SI OPS) responded to the terror attacks of 9-11 and the ongoing threat. Four factors will be examined: (1) the screening process, (2) the budget, (3) the security policy formulation process, and (4) training. The study focus is based on data derived from semi-structured interviews and a review of SI documents. Examining post 9-11 security changes allows one to see how SI OPS has evolved in its attempt to meet both internal security demands and expectations against an external security concern. The findings reveal SI OPS initially underwent significant changes within the four factors in the three years following the attacks of 9-11. However, limited resources and manpower strains have played major roles in the subsequent decline in some of the factors after their initial increases. Although a return to the security levels immediately following 9-11 may not be imminent, it is recommended that OPS management make stronger efforts to communicate with non-security managers and return to more stringent visitor screening procedures.<br>Ph. D.
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Lindsay, Debra Jean. "Science in the sub-arctic : traders, trappers and the Smithsonian Institution, 1859-1870." 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/9568.

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"Museum Networks: The Exchange of the Smithsonian Institution's Duplicate Anthropology Collections." Doctoral diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.25179.

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abstract: This dissertation examines a practice of scientific museums in the 19th and early 20th centuries: the exchange of their duplicate specimens. Specimen exchange facilitated the rise of universal museums while creating a transnational network through which objects, knowledge, and museum practitioners circulated. My primary focus concerns the exchange of anthropological duplicate specimens at the Smithsonian Institution from 1880 to 1920. Specimen exchange was implemented as a strategic measure to quell the growth of scientific collections curated by the Smithsonian prior garnering to the broad political support needed to fund a national museum. My analysis examines how its practice was connected to both anthropological knowledge production, particularly in terms of diversifying the scope of museum collections, and knowledge dissemination. The latter includes an examination of how anthropological duplicates were used to illustrate competing explanations of culture change and generate interest in anthropological subject matter for non-specialist audiences. I examine the influence of natural history classification systems on museum-based anthropology by analyzing how the notion of duplicate was applied to collections of material culture. As the movement of museum objects are of particular concern to anthropologists involved in repatriation practices, I use specimen exchange to demonstrate that while keeping objects is a definitive function of the museum, an understanding of why and how museum objects have been kept or not kept in the past, particularly in terms of the intentions and value systems of curators, is critical in developing an ethically oriented dialogue about disposition of museum objects in the future.<br>Dissertation/Thesis<br>Ph.D. Anthropology 2014
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Gwinn, Nancy E. "The origins and development of international publication exchange in nineteenth-century America." 1996. http://books.google.com/books?id=XtngAAAAMAAJ.

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Brady, Miranda J. "Discourse, cultural policy, and other mechanisms of power : the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian /." 2007. http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-2234/index.html.

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Books on the topic "Smithsonian Institution"

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Gore, Vidal. The Smithsonian Institution. Harcourt Brace, 1999.

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Gore, Vidal. The Smithsonian Institution. Compass Press, 1998.

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Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution: A photographic tour. Smithsonian Books, 2011.

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Pastan, Amy. Smithsonian goes wild. HarperCollins Publishers, 2007.

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Libraries, Smithsonian Institution. Rare books and special collections in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The Libraries, 1995.

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Smithsonian Institution. Press. New books: Smithsonian Institution Press. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986.

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Smithsonian Institution. Annals of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution Press., 1994.

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Gore, Vidal. The Smithsonian Institution: A novel. Random House, 1998.

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Park, Edwards. Treasures of the Smithsonian. Wings Books, 1994.

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Smithsonian Institution. A Picture tour of the Smithsonian. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.

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Tutchener, David. "Smithsonian Institution." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_477.

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Tutchener, David. "Smithsonian Institution." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_477-2.

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Tutchener, David. "Smithsonian Institution." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer New York, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_477.

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Marsh, Diana E., Peyton Moriarty, Elena Myers, and Joshua A. Bell. "Media Technologies and Salvage Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution." In U.S. Museum Histories and the Politics of Interpretation. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003263616-5.

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Fortelius, Mikael, Jordi Agustí, Raymond L. Bernor, et al. "The Origin and Early History of NOW as It Happened." In Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and Ecosystems. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17491-9_2.

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AbstractThe NOW database of fossil mammals came to be through a confluence of several initiatives spanning multiple decades. The first public version of NOW database was released in 1996 and the first Advisory Board was established the year after. Originally, NOW stood for Neogene of the Old World but with the gradual expansion of the database the acronym was eventually reassigned to stand for New and Old Worlds. The structure of what would become NOW was originally cloned from the ETE database of the Smithsonian Institution and the first NOW version accessible over the internet was a node of the ETE database. The first standalone, online version of NOW was launched in 2005 and the first formal steering group was established in 2009. During its existence, NOW has been funded, directly or indirectly, by several organizations but fundamentally it has always been an unfunded community effort, dependent on voluntary work by the participants.
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Haberman, Steven, and Trevor A. Sibbett. "Erastus L. De Forest, ‘Additions to a Memoir on Methods of Interpolation applicable to the Graduation of irregular Series’, Annual Reports for 1871 & 1873, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC (1873 and 1875), pp. 275-339 (1871) and 319-53 (1873)." In The History of Actuarial Science Vol X. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003548034-12.

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"Smithsonian Institution." In Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Fourth Edition. CRC Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1081/e-elis4-120044506.

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"Smithsonian Institution." In Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition. CRC Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1081/e-elis3-120044506.

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Oehser, Paul H., Louise Heskett, and S. Dillon Ripley. "Smithsonian Research." In The Smithsonian Institution. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429314537-6.

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Oehser, Paul H., Louise Heskett, and S. Dillon Ripley. "The Beginnings: James Smithson, his will and the Congress of the United States." In The Smithsonian Institution. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429314537-1.

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Conference papers on the topic "Smithsonian Institution"

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Worthington, Jr., William E. "Hydraulic Engineering History at the Smithsonian Institution." In Symposium to Honor Henry Philibert Caspard Darcy. American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/40683(2003)18.

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D'Amato, Donald P., and Rex C. Klopfenstein. "Evaluation of digital image quality requirements for illustrations of the Smithsonian Institution." In Electronic Imaging '97, edited by V. Ralph Algazi, Sadayasu Ono, and Andrew G. Tescher. SPIE, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.270040.

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Andrade, Max L., and Regina Ruschel. "O processo digital de geração da forma baseado no desempenho com suporte em BIM: o caso do Smithsonian Institution Courtyard Enclosure." In 2º Simpósio Brasileiro de Qualidade do Projeto no Ambiente Construído. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4237/sbqp.11.351.

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Hill, J. M., and J. R. P. Angel. "Spin-casting of a 6.5-m Honeycomb Sandwich Mirror for the MMT Conversion." In Optical Fabrication and Testing. Optica Publishing Group, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/oft.1992.tha4.

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1. Introduction The Steward Observatory Mirror Lab has recently completed the spin-casting of the largest structured mirror ever made, a 6.5-m f/1.25 honeycomb sandwich mirror of borosilicate glass. This mirror will be installed in the Multiple Mirror Telescope operated by the University of Arizona and the Smithsonian Institution, replacing the six 1.8-m mirrors that currently make up the MMT and thereby doubling its collecting area. The casting of this mirror represents the final step in development of technology to produce 8-meter-class lightweight mirror blanks. The honeycomb sandwich structure provides improved mechanical and thermal performance compared to solid blanks. The sandwich is ten times stiffer than the same mass of glass in a solid meniscus, leading to lower deformation under wind forces and lighter telescope structures. Ventilation of the honeycomb with air at ambient temperature reduces the mirror’s thermal time constant to less than an hour, allowing the mirror to accurately track the changing ambient temperature and reduce mirror seeing. Most of the large mirrors to be cast at the Mirror Lab will be extremely fast, in the range f/1.14 to f/1.25. For larger telescopes there is added incentive to keep focal lengths short, in order to minimize enclosure costs and wind-induced motion of the secondary mirror. The MMT Conversion has a particular need for short focal length: the new telescope must fit in the existing enclosure, designed for six 1.8-m f/2.7 mirrors, with only minor modifications.
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Reports on the topic "Smithsonian Institution"

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Yonemura, Ann. Art in Context: Aesthetics, Environment and Function in the Arts of Japan. Inter-American Development Bank, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0007915.

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Weekes, T. C. The application of two-dimensional imaging to very high energy gamma ray astronomy. [Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts]. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/6874099.

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Smolenyak, Barbara E., Donald D. Steele, Andrew Katsaros, Sunil R. Kadam, and Nancy C. Cipolla. Ouality Control Review of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP and the Defense Contract Audit Agency The Smithsonian Institution Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1996. Defense Technical Information Center, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada373715.

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Hodnett, John, Ralph Eshelman, Nicholas Gardner, and Vincent Santucci. Geology, Pleistocene paleontology, and research history of the Cumberland Bone Cave: Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail. National Park Service, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/2296839.

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The Cumberland Bone Cave is a public visitation stop along the Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail renowned for its unique fossil resources that help reconstruct Appalachian middle Pleistocene life in the mid-Atlantic region of North America. This site is gated for safety and to prevent unwanted exploration and damage. Approximately 163 taxa of fossil plant and animals have been collected from Cumberland Bone Cave since 1912. Most of the fossils that have been published pertain to mammals, including many extinct or locally extirpated genera and species. Though the early excavations made by the Smithsonian Institution between 1912 and 1915 are the best known of the work at Cumberland Bone Cave, over many decades multiple institutions and paleontologists have collected and studied the fossil resources from this site up until 2012. Today, fossils from Cumberland Bone Cave are housed at various museum collections, including public displays at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. and the Allegany Museum in Cumberland, Maryland. This report summarizes the geology, fossil resources, and the history of excavation and research for Potomac Heritage Trail’s Cumberland Bone Cave.
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Expeditions: 150 Years of Smithsonian Research in Latin America. Inter-American Development Bank, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0006405.

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Presented in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, featured eighty-five objects related to the numerous scientific expeditions the Smithsonian Institution has mounted with the specific purpose of exploring Latin America.
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Guatemala: Past and Future. Inter-American Development Bank, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0006407.

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This exhibition, organized by the IDB Cultural Center in homage to Guatemala - site of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Development Bank- has been conceived with an optimistic view toward the future while learning lessons from the past. It is likewise a propitious opportunity for the IDB to offer a tribute to the Maya Nation, recognizing its significant cultural legacy, for young Guatemalans who must now take up their country¿s hopes and goals, and meet their expectations. Guatemala: Past and Future comprises six modules organized in chronological order.The first module focuses on the legacy of the Mayas, a people who lived in Mesoamerica for thousands of years and reached spectacular magnificence around 900 AD. The evidence of its culture and its greatness is reflected in many discovered cities, mainly in what is today Guatemala, Southern Mexico, Honduras and Belize, built at the pinnacle of their development; and in wonderful artifacts in the possession of many Guatemalan museums and institutions worldwide, including Washington¿s Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and Dumbarton Oaks.
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