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Making Decisions…ArchivesSpace or AtoM?
Do you use Android or Apple for your electronic ecosystem? When upgrading to a smart phone, I had a difficult time choosing which environment to virtually live in. I own a Mac, but use an IBM at work....
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A Place for Our Stuff: Evaluating Archival Content Management Systems
As the metadata intern for the AMNH Archive Project, it’s been my job to evaluate several archival content management systems (CMS), weighing them against a detailed set of functional requirements...
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Grinnell to GUIDs: Connecting Natural Science Archives and Specimens
Eight of the 940 watercolor illustrations of fungi by Lewis David von Schweinitz in the Academy of Natural Sciences Archives. Ewell Sale Stewart Library and Archives Coll. no. 437 “It is quite probable...
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The Complete Kinsey
In 2010 when the library’s first CLIR grant was underway we strategized with the project timeline, plotting a course through the departments. As often happens with projects involving inventory efforts,...
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EAC-CPF at the AMNH, Part 2
Last month I described how we grew our Excel worksheet to support gathering descriptions for AMNH expeditions and personnel in data fields mapped to EAC-CPF. Today I will explain how this basic...
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In the shadow of men: a look at the life of Mary L. Jobe Akeley
I’m currently interning at the American Museum of Natural History, working on their CLIR Hidden Collections project. The project has focused on the creation of EAC-CPF (Encoded Archival Context –...
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Making a List, Checking it Twice
In 1935, Henry Raven set out with Arthur S. Vernay, Stephen F. Hopwood, and other hunters, academics, and guides on a research trip to Burma. He served as lead scientist, collector, and primary...
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The Living Fossil – Story of the Coelacanth
Coelacanth mosaic at 81st Street subway platform When walking to the exit in the 81st St. – Museum of Natural History subway station, among the creatures on the walls welcoming visitors to the museum...
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EAC-CPF at the AMNH, Part 1
One year has passed since we began planning for and creating descriptive records for the AMNH expeditions and the people who participated in them. The project team set out to encode the descriptions of...
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Gowanus or Bust
Have you ever walked through the halls of the American Museum of Natural History and imagined what it was like for a scientist in the 1920s to gather specimens and interpret important data? As a...
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