Digital Content Types at the Smithsonian Institution : Short Paper - iPRES 2025 - Wellington, New Zealand / Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa
Abstract
Digital content is used across the Smithsonian Institution to perform the activities that are core to the organization’s mission and essential to the strategic plan. Deploying this digital content at such scale requires two key considerations, a management strategy that understands what content has Institutional value, and a supported digital ecosystem of tools that define pathways for these assets to make this value usable and accessible throughout the lifecycle. In 2023, The Smithsonian’s Office of Digital Transformation embarked on a project to investigate, explore, map, and categorize the Smithsonian’s digital content, through a pan-institutional lens. The project’s main purpose was to identify and define the types of digital content that describe the landscape of digital products across the Institution. The investigation also identified strengths, gaps, existing systems of support, and conversational themes outlined by digital stakeholders. This short paper will report on the project and findings. A full project report can be found at Smithsonian Research Online.Details
- Creators
- Crystal Sanchez
- Institutions
- Date
- 2025-09-01 00:00:00 +0000
- Keywords
- digital humanities
- Publication Type
- paper
- License
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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