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The Wired Museum: Emerging Technology and Changing Paradigms. A Review

The Wired Museum: Emerging Technology and Changing Paradigms. A Review Archives and Museum Informatics 11: 191–195, 1997. 191 The Wired Museum: Emerging Technology and Changing Paradigms. A Review RICHARD GERRARD Toronto Historical Board, Toronto, Canada Katherine Jones-Garmil (ed.), The Wired Museum: Emerging Technology and Changing Paradigms. Introduction by Maxwell L. Anderson; Contributors: Guy Hermann, Leslie Johnston, Howard Besser, Lyn Elliot Sherwood, Diane M. Zorich, James R. Blackaby, David Bearman, George F. MacDonald, and Stephen Alsford. Washington, DC: American Association of Museum, 1997, 280 pages. AAM Order No. EWM230, US$30[AAM Member]/US$35[Non-member] The Wired Museum is simply the best book about digital information technology and museums I have read for a very long time. We have all read on the back of dust jackets publisher’s claim that a particular book should be read by ‘registrars, educators, administrators, computer support staff, curators, senior management, and anyone else working with information technology.’ This book lives up to those claims. If this book had been written 10 years ago it would have been filled with excru- ciatingly detailed papers on relational database design, hardware-level networking, implementation strategies for information systems, and technical computer jargon without end. What I was very pleased to find in these essays is an excellent (and relatively jargon free) overview http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives and Museum Informatics Springer Journals

The Wired Museum: Emerging Technology and Changing Paradigms. A Review

Gerrard, Richard
Archives and Museum Informatics , Volume 11 (2) – Oct 15, 2004
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 1997 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Subject
Computer Science; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory; Document Preparation and Text Processing; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Library Science; Arts
ISSN
1042-1467
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1573-7500
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10.1023/A:1009034031986
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Archives and Museum Informatics 11: 191–195, 1997. 191 The Wired Museum: Emerging Technology and Changing Paradigms. A Review RICHARD GERRARD Toronto Historical Board, Toronto, Canada Katherine Jones-Garmil (ed.), The Wired Museum: Emerging Technology and Changing Paradigms. Introduction by Maxwell L. Anderson; Contributors: Guy Hermann, Leslie Johnston, Howard Besser, Lyn Elliot Sherwood, Diane M. Zorich, James R. Blackaby, David Bearman, George F. MacDonald, and Stephen Alsford. Washington, DC: American Association of Museum, 1997, 280 pages. AAM Order No. EWM230, US$30[AAM Member]/US$35[Non-member] The Wired Museum is simply the best book about digital information technology and museums I have read for a very long time. We have all read on the back of dust jackets publisher’s claim that a particular book should be read by ‘registrars, educators, administrators, computer support staff, curators, senior management, and anyone else working with information technology.’ This book lives up to those claims. If this book had been written 10 years ago it would have been filled with excru- ciatingly detailed papers on relational database design, hardware-level networking, implementation strategies for information systems, and technical computer jargon without end. What I was very pleased to find in these essays is an excellent (and relatively jargon free) overview

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