Data Processing and Museum Collections: A Problem for the Present

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Summary

Squires recounts the development of the first automated data cataloging for the specimens in the National Museum of Natural History using a paper tape system, including the Automatic Data-Processing Committee established in 1966.

Subject

  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
  • National Museum of Natural History Automatic Data-Processing Committee

Category

Smithsonian History Bibliography

Notes

Squires was Deputy Director of the National Museum of Natural History at the time of publication.

Contained within

Curator Vol. IX, No. 3 (Journal)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1966

Topic

  • Computers
  • Information storage and retrieval systems
  • Data processing
  • Cataloging
  • Museums
  • Electronic data processing
  • Museums--Collection management

Physical description

Number of pages: 11; Page numbers: 216-227

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