https://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/digitization/RSS feed for DigitizationenTue, 07 Jul 2026 17:09:01 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/can-you-guess-the-origins-of-papyrus-fragments-or-painted-ceramics-a-college-student-turned-the-mets-open-access-database-into-an-online-game-180989080/If you consider yourself an art history buff, test your smarts with Anthropeum. The game pulls ten images from the Met's open-access archive and challenges players to identify each artifact's time and place of originTue, 07 Jul 2026 17:09:01 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/can-you-guess-the-origins-of-papyrus-fragments-or-painted-ceramics-a-college-student-turned-the-mets-open-access-database-into-an-online-game-180989080/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-1897-film-discovered-in-an-old-trunk-in-michigan-features-the-first-on-screen-appearance-of-robot-180988547/Filmmaker Georges Méliès employed some of his signature special effects techniques to create comedy in "Gugusse and the Automaton"Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:16:42 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-1897-film-discovered-in-an-old-trunk-in-michigan-features-the-first-on-screen-appearance-of-robot-180988547/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newly-digitized-records-reveal-how-indigenous-people-shared-their-knowledge-of-new-zealands-plants-with-captain-cooks-crew-180987953/Long-overlooked documents housed at London's Natural History Museum testify to the exchange of information between 18th-century European botanists and their Indigenous counterpartsThu, 08 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newly-digitized-records-reveal-how-indigenous-people-shared-their-knowledge-of-new-zealands-plants-with-captain-cooks-crew-180987953/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/denmarks-postal-service-is-about-to-stop-delivering-physical-letters-after-400-years-180987918/As the volume of letters plummets, PostNord, the government-owned postal service of Denmark and Sweden, will stop transporting letters in Denmark on December 30, though it will continue distributing packagesTue, 23 Dec 2025 14:56:04 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/denmarks-postal-service-is-about-to-stop-delivering-physical-letters-after-400-years-180987918/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/go-behind-the-scenes-at-an-iconic-irish-library-as-staff-move-700000-historical-treasures-into-storage-180987743/Trinity College Dublin’s Old Library will close for restoration and construction in 2027. What does that mean for the medieval manuscripts and books housed there?Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/go-behind-the-scenes-at-an-iconic-irish-library-as-staff-move-700000-historical-treasures-into-storage-180987743/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-pompeiis-elite-may-have-built-lavish-towers-on-top-of-their-villas-heres-what-they-may-have-looked-like-180987661/Digital reconstructions are bringing structures to life that may have collapsed during Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E. Researchers think these towers symbolized their owners' wealth and influenceMon, 17 Nov 2025 20:01:44 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-pompeiis-elite-may-have-built-lavish-towers-on-top-of-their-villas-heres-what-they-may-have-looked-like-180987661/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-the-faces-of-four-individuals-buried-in-colombia-with-death-masks-researchers-just-digitally-removed-the-skull-coverings-to-reveal-their-faces-for-the-first-time-180987449/See the portraits of a 6- or 7-year-old child, a woman in her 60s, and two young men who were buried in Colombia between the 13th and 18th centuriesMon, 06 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-the-faces-of-four-individuals-buried-in-colombia-with-death-masks-researchers-just-digitally-removed-the-skull-coverings-to-reveal-their-faces-for-the-first-time-180987449/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-worlds-first-virtual-museum-of-stolen-cultural-objects-wants-its-collection-to-shrink-not-grow-180987448/Visitors can explore 3D renderings of stolen artworks, historical artifacts, rare books and more in UNESCO's new digital museumFri, 03 Oct 2025 20:00:04 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-worlds-first-virtual-museum-of-stolen-cultural-objects-wants-its-collection-to-shrink-not-grow-180987448/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/christies-helped-drive-the-art-worlds-nft-craze-now-the-auction-house-is-shutting-down-its-digital-art-division-180987306/Once a booming sector, the nonfungible token art market has been contracting for yearsTue, 09 Sep 2025 17:29:06 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/christies-helped-drive-the-art-worlds-nft-craze-now-the-auction-house-is-shutting-down-its-digital-art-division-180987306/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/millions-of-maya-still-call-mesoamerica-home-this-groundbreaking-initiative-ushers-the-rich-tapestry-of-mayan-languages-into-the-digital-age-180987113/The Mayan Languages Preservation and Digitization Project promotes tools designed by and for Indigenous communities, like online glossaries and special phone keyboardsFri, 08 Aug 2025 11:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/millions-of-maya-still-call-mesoamerica-home-this-groundbreaking-initiative-ushers-the-rich-tapestry-of-mayan-languages-into-the-digital-age-180987113/