Ricc Ferrante

Associate Director of Information Systems, Digital Lifecycle and User Experience at Smithsonian Libraries and Archives /Thoughts my own

[Ricc Ferrante @raferrante]

Smithsonian Libraries & Archives is hiring! Check out this exciting opportunity: Associate Director (Discovery, Acquisitions and Technical Services). https://t.co/JzxAht1aH6 Application period closes 5/17.

[Smithsonian American Women's History Museum @SIAmericanWomen]

As a founding member of the @FiskJubilee, Ella Sheppard helped save the sounds of African American celebration.

The group was instrumental in preserving spirituals and bringing them to a broader audience. More in #MusicHerStory: https://t.co/yHNRqo9F7D

#Juneteenth

[Ricc Ferrante @raferrante]

Making plans? #iiif 2024

[Neil Fitzgerald @N_Fitzgerald]

Next in person #iiif conference location announced

[Smithsonian American Women's History Museum @SIAmericanWomen]

Her performances drew comparisons to Louis Armstrong.
She named her band "Tiny Davis and Her Hell Drivers."
She was part of the first racially integrated all-woman jazz band to tour nationally.
Meet Ernestine "Tiny" Davis: https://t.co/VsMd8cYBhM
#InternationalJazzDay

[CitSciMonth @CitSciMonth]

Are you up for the challenge? Take the @citnatchallenge 2023- this 4 day annual bioblitz starts next week on @inaturalist! https://t.co/WdFeBCNc1P #global #biodiversity #EarthDay #EarthMonth #GlobalGoals #CityNatureChallenge

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

In a stunning show of support for libraries, late yesterday afternoon the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to support a resolution backing the Internet Archive and the digital rights of all libraries. ▶️https://t.co/9KnEeke3aB #DigitalRightsForLibraries

[Ricc Ferrante @raferrante]

Be part of the fun!

[WeDigBio @WeDigBio]

ONE WEEK! WeDigBio's WHY DIG BIO! Register for a Friday, April 14 event with guest speakers, discussing major motivations across scale for digitizing biodiversity. https://t.co/NoeDqWHkHh

[National Library of New Zealand @NLNZ]

On the blog — Investigating mysterious digital files stored on a laptop and obsolete disk format from the 90s. Read about all the work that goes into accessing thirty-year-old digital files!

#digitalpreservation #digitalarchiving

https://t.co/DRRyIuD4lw

[NEH Pres Access @NEH_PresAccess]

Cultural & history repositories of all sizes! Could you use an NEH #PresAccessFunded grant, from $10,000 to $350,000, to preserve or boost access to your humanities collections? Check out our programs & application tips today! https://t.co/yp8KaNBQTe #Museums #Archives #Libraries

[Carla Hayden @LibnOfCongress]

For the first we rolled out this 54 foot long petition from 1865. It was signed by 3,740 African Americans from South Carolina asking Congress “equal rights before the law" months after the Civil War.
We need the public's help transcribing this historic treasure.
🧵

[Patricia Hswe @pmhswe]

"We’re going so fast as a society that we don’t always realize what we’re leaving behind" - filmmaker Inés Toharia: https://t.co/eWOVMkPIJI

[CalRBS @CalRBS]

DEVELOPING AND ADMINISTERING ETHNIC & CULTURAL HERITAGE RESOURCES
instructor: Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty (@evangelestia)

[Ricc Ferrante @raferrante]

An exciting job opportunity! The Smithsonian Libraries and Archives has an opening for an application software specialist ($59,319 to $78,592)! https://t.co/A3aGOb3NyL Apply by 02/08/2023! To learn more about @SILibraries and its initiatives visit https://t.co/hUa4bHyybZ.

[Ricc Ferrante @raferrante]

It was wonderful that @SILibraries could help you in your research!

[Dr Meghan Ferriter @MeghaninMotion]

Please join and help carry forward efforts from @digitaleffie and many collaborators to honor women's sundry and myriad contributions to history #EditingforEffie
Thank you @SiobhanLeachman @kellyjeanne9 @fuzheado for bringing us together today ❤️

[British Ecological Society @BritishEcolSoc]

Come along to @NHM_London or join us online for an exciting launch event of a new special feature, Leveraging natural history collections to understand global change!

Register now: https://t.co/orKBubQ2iB #BESNHCs
@AnimalEcology @MethodsEcolEvol @JEcology & @FunEcology

[Kelly Doyle Kim @kellyjeanne9]

We'll be #EditingForEffie tomorrow, 1/9 @americanart. Join us virtually or in-person from 11:30-3:30pm. We'll be editing #Wikipedia articles about topics she cared most about, like women in science. Register here to join us https://t.co/qEDfY4Fhwh

[John Gordy @johngordy]

It was uplifting to see the @americanart courtyard filled with Effie's friends and family today. I enjoyed getting to know her better by hearing your stories. Let's help the family by contributing to Melina's scholarship fund https://t.co/i3nPEevOoV https://t.co/IAA44wW1mf