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Author/Creator:Foti, Petrina, author.
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Title:Collecting and exhibiting computer-based technology : expert curation at the museums of the Smithsonian Institution / Petrina Foti.
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ISBN:9780815369943
0815369948
9781351174343
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Publication:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
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Copyright notice date: ©2019
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Physical Description:ix, 166 pages ; 24 cm.
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Summary:"Computer technology has transformed modern society, yet curators wishing to reflect those changes face difficult challenges in terms of both collecting and exhibiting. Collecting and Exhibiting Computer-Based Technology examines how curators at the history and technology museums of the Smithsonian Institution have met these challenges"--
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Other formats:Online version: Foti, Petrina, author. Collecting and exhibiting computer-based technology Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019
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Series:Routledge research in museum studies ; 19
Routledge research in museum studies ; 19.
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BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents:What is computer-based technology? -- Curating the unprecedented -- Adaptive, distributed, and transmitted: the expert curation in action -- Dealing with the digital: computer technology in the collection -- "The black box conundrum": computers technology on exhibit -- Internal processing: the methods of curating computer-based technology -- The ever-evolving future.
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Subjects:Smithsonian Institution.
Smithsonian Institution.
Computers--Collectors and collecting.
Museums--Collection management--United States.
Museum exhibits--Social aspects--United States.
Museum exhibits--Social aspects.
Museums--Collection management.
United States.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13970309