Tuesday, September 16, 2008

What's Wrong With This Story?

Hint: The AP violated one of its own style rules. See AP style manual, p. 226.


Smithsonian Institute to digitize its collection

By BRETT ZONGKER
Associated Press Writer


WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Smithsonian Institution will work to digitize its collections to make science, history and cultural artifacts accessible online and dramatically expand its outreach to schools, the museum complex's new chief said Monday.

"I worry about museums becoming less relevant to society," said Secretary G. Wayne Clough in his first interviews since taking the Smithsonian's helm in July.

Clough, 66, who was president of the Georgia Institute of Technology for 14 years, says he's working to bring in video gaming experts and Web gurus to collaborate with curators on creative ways to present artifacts online and make them appealing to kids.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well I noticed that at first its called the Smithsonian Institute, and than Institute, but I suspect that your talking about the dateline area?

Unknown said...

That sounds right: AP says that it's always "Smithsonian Institution" never "Institute".