Mark Custer

'I must live, like a tree, where I grow.' -- Arghol

[Michelle Peralta @michellepera1ta]

Last call for proposals for New England Archivists Spring 2024 Meeting! Proposals due on 11/17th.

[Smithsonian Transcription Center @TranscribeSI]

New feature! ✨ You can now flip images horizontally while transcribing. Use it to read reversed text or to make a cephalopod dance. 🦑

[Smithsonian Transcription Center @TranscribeSI]

"Dearest Dorothea - Here is the voice of your Cecilia - Can you recognize it? ... Tell me your news and what you are about inside would you?" 💌

Read personal letters between artist Cecelia Beaux and her lifelong partner Dorothea Gilder: https://t.co/zzYXmyXAyU #SmithsonianPride

[Rob Sanderson @[email protected] @azaroth42]

Yale is about to launch a new Linked Data based research and discovery tool across all of our libraries, archives and museums. Stay tuned ... but here's me talking about it for the cameras this morning! #YaleLUX

[Smithsonian Transcription Center @TranscribeSI]

#Volunpeer Jennie Caughran has transcribed 140K+ #FreedmensBureau records since 2018. 🤩 Last year, she visited @NMAAHC to see some of these documents displayed in the exhibition "Make Good the Promises: Reconstruction and Its Legacies."

Read her story: https://t.co/YWZbwpzAgI.

[Smithsonian American Women's History Museum @SIAmericanWomen]

Alma Thomas dedicated herself to painting after retiring from a 38-year career as a public school art teacher in Washington, D.C. She painted this work, “Earth Sermon – Beauty, Love And Peace,” in 1971, in her 80s.

[ArchivesPortalEurope @ArchivesPortal]

#BeforetheEuro resumes with Spain, which was part of the first group of countries to adopt the Euro in 2002. Before this date, the Spanish currency was the peseta, which lasted for 134 years @ArchivosEst holds the original docs on the new monetary system https://t.co/C0npcnHsl0

[ArchivesAmericanArt @ArchivesAmerArt]

The papers of Max Cole are currently being processed. The collection contains photographs, interviews, gallery files, over 300 digital discs, and other records detailing Cole’s 60-year career. 🎨 #SmithsonianWHM #WomensHistoryMonth

[Smithsonian Transcription Center @TranscribeSI]

Andddddd....we're back!

The Transcription Center site — with some new features and improvements — is up and running again. Thank you for all your patience!

Learn more about what's changed: https://t.co/umPWfkca8I.

[Smithsonian Transcription Center @TranscribeSI]

Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon revolutionized our understanding of the universe. In 1901, she developed a classification system for stars based on their temps and spectral types. ✨

#TDIH 1912, Cannon observed a star with "strong metallic lines:" https://t.co/GXQizwSG38. #WHM

[ArchivesAmericanArt @ArchivesAmerArt]

Next up in the #MysteriesOfTheArchivesOfAmericanArt where we identify unknown figures in photographs across the Archives collections:
Join us in solving this mystery—scroll for more info! 🕵️‍♂️🔎❔

[ArchivesPortalEurope @ArchivesPortal]

Want to learn more about using controlled vocabularies for subjects, places, persons, etc. mentioned in / related to your archival documents? Then this webinar series by @archivists_org's Description Section and TS-EAS is for you: https://t.co/gHGtupq6Ox

[Mark Custer @steganogram]

@meau_takes I'm giving up on finding it now, but I seem to remember a paper that brought together a variety of pre-AT / pre-PDF templates, and those examples were very similar to the following: https://t.co/wU8DESIPqI, https://t.co/bOrkWgGTu9, and https://t.co/bOrkWgGTu9.

[Mark Custer @steganogram]

@meau_takes I swear that I’ve stumbled across an article before that assembled a sample of paper-based accession template forms for comparison. Have you seen that? That report seemed to me to be an influence on the Archivists’ Toolkit. I’ll try to rediscover it and share a citation next week

[Isabella Bruno @thenewpopup]

This team at Smithsonian is amazing, and growing. Feel free to DM me for more info... Director of Data Analytics and Insights
Public Announcement: https://t.co/DrEbUvfWGV
Fed Only Announcement: https://t.co/vXksoYn3bs

[EAS Section @EASSection]

Check out the latest @archivists_org Descriptive Notes Blog post "Updates to EAC-CPF 2.0: A Webinar Recap" by EAS section member James Truitt: https://t.co/OkLK6dSJoH

[Mark Custer @steganogram]

@wikidata I'm just shy of celebrating my fourth #WikidataBirthday. First edit was to update a SNAC identifier. See https://t.co/laTAdTrfbD. To celebrate, I just read Georgia Douglass Johnson's poem Gossamer, which - perhaps fittingly in relation to wikis - ends with "cob-webs of the dawn"

[Beinecke Library @BeineckeLibrary]

Tom Feelings b. #OTD

Here: I saw your face: text by @kwamedawes; drawings by Tom Feelings https://t.co/x75N4K1Zz8
Tom Feelings Artwork @YCAL_JWJ https://t.co/vjFYXHDRM4

[Beinecke Library @BeineckeLibrary]

Happy 125th birthday, Thornton Wilder!
Finding aid to the Thornton Wilder Papers: https://t.co/gV4jYJxSbR

[Mark Custer @steganogram]

@melibeus1 @BeineckeLibrary Happy Easter -- and what a collection of Easter Eggs (https://t.co/HDm0YxZH9y), indeed! Also, here's a direct link to that photograph, https://t.co/BkeHGAKaTr Or, using some of the fun features of IIIF, here's another zoomed-in view of that same feature : https://t.co/CD6CzZd4po