User:Jpbowen/sandbox/VMoC
![]() The pioneer of computer science, Alan Turing, who has featured especially in the Virtual Museum of Computing, in collaboration with Andrew Hodges.[1] | |
Available in | English |
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Founded | 1 June 1995 |
Headquarters | University of Oxford (in 1995), , |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of locations | Mirror sites around the world |
Area served | Worldwide |
Owner | International Council of Museums (ICOM) |
Created by | Jonathan Bowen |
Founder(s) | Oxford University Computing Laboratory |
Editors | Jonathan Bowen, Andrew Hodges |
Key people | Jonathan Bowen |
Industry | Museums |
Services | Virtual museum |
Parent | Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp) |
URL | museums.fandom.com |
Commercial | No |
Launched | 2 June 1995 |
Current status | Archival site hosted by MuseumsWiki |
The Virtual Museum of Computing (VMoC) is an eclectic collection of links and online resources concerning the history of computers and computer science.[2][3][1] It includes links to other related museums, both real and virtual, around the world, as well as having its own virtual galleries of information. A particular feature is the early computing pioneer Alan Turing, among others.[1]
This virtual museum was founded by Jonathan Bowen on 1 June 1995 (announced on 2 June 1995[4]), originally at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory in the United Kingdom.[5] It has been supported by Museophile Limited[6] and also forms part of the Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp), supported by the International Council of Museums (ICOM).[7] VMoC was subsequently hosted at the University of Reading and London South Bank University, and was mirrored around the world as part of VLmp. It is now available as a wiki on the MuseumsWiki, hosted on Fandom (formerly Wikia).[8]
The resource has been widely cited in books[9] and academic publications.[10] It was created tp provide information on computer history[11] and act as an educational resource.[12] It has hosted information on history of computing events.[13] The resource has been described internationally, including in Russian.[14]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Bowen, Jonathan P.; Angus, Jim; Bennet, Jim; Borda, Ann; Hodges, Andrew; Filippini-Fantoni, Silvia; Beler, Alpay (2005). "The Development of Science Museum Websites: Case Studies (Chapter XVIII)". In Hin, Leo Tan Wee; Subramaniam, Ramanathan (eds.). E-learning and Virtual Science Centers, Section 3: Case Studies. Hershey, USA: Idea Group Publishing. pp. 366–392. doi:10.4018/978-1-59140-591-7.ch018.
- ^ "Virtual Museum of Computing Web Site". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 18 (4): 67. 1996.
- ^ Leslie, Mitch (14 September 2001). "Memory lane". Science. 293 (5537). Washington: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
- ^ "The Virtual Museum of Computing". Google Groups. Google. 2 June 1995.
- ^ Bowen, Jonathan P. (2010). "A Brief History of Early Museums Online". The Rutherford Journal. 3.
- ^ "Virtual Museum of Computing". Museophile Limited. Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
- ^ "Virtual Museum of Computing". Virtual Library museums pages. International Council of Museums. Archived from the original on 10 October 2014. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
- ^ "Virtual Museum of Computing". MuseumsWiki. Fandom. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
- ^ "Virtual Museum of Computing VMoC". Google Books. Google. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
- ^ "Virtual Museum of Computing VMoC". Google Scholar. Google. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
- ^ Farr, Graham; Ainsworth, Barbara; Avram, Chris; Sheard, Judy (February 2016). Computer History on the Move. SIGCSE '16: Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 528–533. doi:10.1145/2839509.2844575.
- ^ Lee, J.A.N. (2004). "History of Computing in Education". In Impagliazzo, J.; Lee, J.A.N. (eds.). History of Computing in Education. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Vol. 145. New York, NY: Springer. doi:10.1007/1-4020-8136-7_1.
- ^ Kita, Chigusa (ed.). "Events and Sightings Web Extras". history.computer.org. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
- ^ Максимова, Т. Е. "Виртуальные музеи: анализ понятия" [Virtual museums: analysis of the concept]. cyberleninka.ru. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
External links
[edit]- Virtual Museum of Computing archival website
- Virtual Museum of Computing on Archive.org:
- Pioneers of Computing gallery, including Alan Turing and Charles Babbage
- A Brief History of Algebra and Computing gallery
- Early Microprocessor Instruction Set Cards gallery
- VMoC ICOM mirror website
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