University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Retrocomputing, Archival Research, and Digital Heritage Preservation: A Computer Museum and iSchool Collaboration

Galloway, Patricia

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Title
Retrocomputing, Archival Research, and Digital Heritage Preservation: A Computer Museum and iSchool Collaboration
Author(s)
Galloway, Patricia
Issue Date
2011-06
Keyword(s)
  • Digital preservation
  • Computers -- Conservation and restoration
  • Computers -- Museums
Abstract
This article discusses the potential contributions of lay members of the public to the dialogue around the data/information/knowledge life-cycle in a community technology museum, the Goodwill Computer Museum in Austin, Texas. Through an examination of the museum's collaboration with the University of Texas School of Information, the article addresses the situation that arises when a museum is created by non(museum)-professionals who control considerable expertise in the subject field, and explores how the presence and collaboration of volunteers allows the museum to serve as a laboratory setting for the participation of academic researchers in the field of digital heritage preservation.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/26427
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Copyright (2011) Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Owning Collections

Library Trends 59 (4) Spring 2011: Involving Users in the Co-Construction of Digital Knowledge in LAMs PRIMARY
Library Trends 59 (4) Spring 2011. Edited by Paul F. Marty and Michelle M. Kazmer