Automatic Data-Processing Committee Created

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Summary

An Automatic Data-Processing Committee is established in the National Museum of Natural History to study potential applications of computers to collections management and systematics research. Committee members include Richard A. Boardman, Donald R. Davis, Mason E. Hale, David B. Lellinger, Philip S. Humphrey, Ernest A. Lachner, Victor G. Springer, Raymond B. Manning and Donald F. Squires, Chair.

Subject

  • Hale, Mason
  • Boardman, Richard S
  • Davis, Donald R. (Donald Ray)
  • Lachner, Ernest A
  • Manning, Raymond B
  • Humphrey, Philip S
  • Springer, Victor Gruschka 1928-
  • Squires, Donald Fleming
  • Lellinger, David B
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
  • National Museum of Natural History, Automatic Data-Processing Committee

Notes

Donald F. Squires, "Data Processing and Museum Collections: A Problem for the Present," Curator magazine, Vol. IX, No.3, pp. 216-227.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, [email protected]

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Date

1966

Topic

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

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