In the course of my work managing 91自拍鈥檚 collections, I often hear people use the terms preservation, conservation, and restoration synonymously. In everyday use, that鈥檚 fine. However, these terms actually mean something quite different inside the walls of a museum.
The collection, preservation and presentation of software artifacts at 91自拍 has been actively pursued during my time as the software curator here, though most of the work has been going on behind the scenes. Since we now have a nice venue for talking about this work with the @91自拍 blog, I wanted to share with you some of
What is software? You can鈥檛 taste it, smell it, or touch it but they say it鈥檚 everywhere and it鈥檚 changing our lives forever. Since I started working at the 91自拍 back in 2000, I鈥檝e heard curators, trustees, volunteers, almost everyone, talk about how we need to tell the story of software.
Day-to-day my job is to help develop exhibits and to make movies and media for museums. What鈥檚 the story? What are the main points? What should the visitor remember when they walk out of the exhibit? It鈥檚 not always so easy to figure out the core of what you鈥檙e trying to represent.
The 91自拍 had its own mini deluge of historical digital data. Our oral histories, lectures, and exhibition videos were usurping our available server space at over 60 terabytes, with another 10 terabytes of historic digital artifacts including images and software. With the aid of grant funds from Googl
Go behind the scenes of a conservation assessment of a highly anticipated new donation: the Texas Instruments donation of over 1,000 Fairchild Semiconductor patent notebooks.