Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of several web presences maintained by the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
The National Design Awards subsite of the Cooper Hewitt's primary website was crawled on October 29, 2015. It provides information about the awards and related events.
The "Cooper Hewitt Labs" blog, crawled November 6, 2015, provides a behind the scenes look at the work of the Digital and Emerging Media Department. The blog launched in December 2011.
The Educator Resource Center website, crawled February 8, 2016, allows teachers and other educators to communicate in a group setting with the Cooper Hewitt and provides lesson plans and links to design resources. Due to technical issues, content in the crawled website is incomplete. At the time of the crawl, the blog embedded in the live website did not contain any posts.
The Cooper Hewitt's GitHub account was crawled February 9, 2016. The account provides the museum with a space to share open-source technologies developed in-house. Software may not download or function properly from the crawled website.
Materials are in electronic format.