This accession consists of 6 YouTube accounts from across the Smithsonian Institution. The accounts were crawled between January 5 and September 27, 2017. YouTube is
a video-sharing service that many museums, research centers, and programmatic offices use for disseminating informational, educational, and promotional videos. Due to technical
issues, this accession does not include every video that was available on each of the accounts at the time that they were captured and some features may not function as expected.
Some accounts were crawled in multiple parts. Materials are in electronic format.
This accession consists of twelve YouTube accounts from across the Smithsonian Institution as they existed in January and February 2014. YouTube is a video-sharing
service that many museums, research centers, and programmatic offices use for disseminating informational, educational, and promotional videos. Due to technical issues, this
accession does not include every video that was available on each of the accounts at the time that they were captured. Materials are in electronic format.
Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue from the Collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and Camille O. and William H. Cosby Jr. (Website)
This accession consists of the "Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue from the Collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African
Art and Camille O. and William H. Cosby Jr." website as it existed on July 16, 2015. The website accompanies a physical exhibition titled "Conversations: African and African
American Artworks in Dialogue" and is a major part of the museum's 50th anniversary, celebrating its unique history and contributions toward furthering meaningful dialogue
between Africa and the African diaspora. Also included is a video on the museum's YouTube channel of Bill and Camille O. Cosby discussing art. Materials are in electronic
format.
This accession consists of 8 YouTube accounts from across the Smithsonian Institution. The accounts were crawled between December 9, 2015, and June 8, 2016. YouTube
is a video-sharing service that many museums, research centers, and programmatic offices use for disseminating informational, educational, and promotional videos. Due to technical
issues, this accession does not include every video that was available on each of the accounts at the time that they were captured and some features may not function as expected.
Some accounts were crawled in multiple parts. Materials are in electronic format.
This accession consists of 41 YouTube accounts from across the Smithsonian Institution. The accounts were crawled between October 24, 2014, and September 30, 2015.
YouTube is a video-sharing service that many museums, research centers, and programmatic offices use for disseminating informational, educational, and promotional videos.
Due to technical issues, this accession does not include every video that was available on each of the accounts at the time that they were captured and some features may not
function as expected. Some accounts were crawled in multiple parts. Materials are in electronic format.
American History Through an African American Lens (Blog)
Facebook (Electronic resource)
YouTube (Electronic resource)
Storify (Electronic resource)
Creator::
National Museum of African American History and Culture Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Electronic records
Date:
2012-2017
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of several websites and social media accounts documenting the promotion and marketing of the National Museum and African American History and
Culture (NMAAHC) which opened to the public on September 24, 2016.
NMAAHC's primary website was crawled on August 26 (twice) and 28, September 16, 22, 23 (twice), 24 (three times), 25, and 27, 2016. The website includes information about
visiting, exhibitions, events, and collections. Some crawls only include top-level pages of the website and extensive detailed collections information is not included in any
of the crawls. Due to technical issues, some features of the website may not function properly in this accession.
NMAAHC's Tumblr blog, titled "American History through an African American Lens," was crawled on September 9 and October 4, 2016. Launched in February 2012, it highlights
events, objects, and research.
The fundraising website established for the NMAAHC's "Giving Day," also September 24, 2016, was crawled on September 12 and 16, 2016.
The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH) website was crawled on September 21, 2016. CFCH organized the "Freedom Sounds: A Community Celebration" festival in
honor of the opening of NMAAHC. The festival ran September 23-25, 2016.
The top pages of the Smithsonian Institution website which announce the opening of the museum were crawled on September 24, 2016.
NMAAHC's Twitter account, a platform used for microblogging, was crawled on September 8, 21, 23, and 24 (twice), and October 7, 2016. The AskNMAAHC Twitter account, used
to answer questions from the public about visiting NMAAHC, was crawled on February 7, 2017, but had been inactive since October 13, 2016. Tweets using two hashtags promoted
by NMAAHC and used both for official tweets and by other institutions and the public were also captured. Tweets using "#illuminateNMAAHC" were captured between November 3,
2015, and September 30, 2016, and exported to a spreadsheet. Tweets using "#APeoplesJourney" were crawled on October 3, 2016.
NMAAHC's Storify account, used to document social media campaigns by combining content from several sources, was crawled on October 4, 2016.
NMAAHC's YouTube channel, used for sharing videos, was crawled in two pieces on October 5, 2016.
NMAAHC's Facebook account, used to communicate and share with the public, was crawled on both October 7 and 27, 2016.
