[SCC_Active_Members] Nobel Purposes and TONIGHT - Of Interest to SCC - From Gutenberg to Galaxy: Accessing Cultural Assets Online

[Henry Lowood]

Bill,

Quick correction: machinima.com is not a site we did.  However we did 
archive many of their movies in the Machinima Archive, which is the first 
site you listed.

As I said to John Toole after the program, I think CHM is in very good 
position to put together community-based projects like I was describing.

Henry

At 09:23 AM 2/24/2005, Bill Selmeier wrote:
>Ok, let me start by first pulling Lee's chain for promoting this event 
>(good idea) but then I didn't see him there.  8^)
>
>The panel did bring some topics up that touch on a comment I briefly made 
>at the last meeting.  Even though I'm a newbie at this, I'm going to try 
>and postulate some thoughts.
>
>Certanly we all would like the Museum to serve grand and noble purposes. 
>To simply become a repository for software, while good, is likely to be 
>repeated in numerous places more or less accurately.  It seems to me a 
>noble purpose for us is to become authoritative about the identification 
>or correctness of an assertion of what a particular software program, etc. is.
>
>The speakers last night and particularily Henry Lowood, Stanford Curator 
>for History of Science and Technology Collections, recognized that digital 
>archiving is going on all over the internet.  This is a problem legacy 
>collections are struggling with right now as they see their uniqueness and 
>authoritativeness atrophy.  There will be multiple authoritative 
>collections and many many more "vernacular" collections.
>
>Could we as the Computer History Museum become the trusted source for the 
>truthfullness of claiming e.g. "This is the cobol compiler for the Univac 
>9700?"  An MD5 checksum is probably to simplistic an approach, but this is 
>a noble purpose if it can be accomplished.
>
>Henry Lowood referred to two different Stanford sponsored projects and 
>implied that they also relate to vernacular collections in the same 
>topical areas.
>
>See http://www.archive.org/movies/collection.php?collection=machinima or 
>http://www.machinima.com/.
>
>
>Bill
>
>
>On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Lee Courtney wrote:
>
>>Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:51:03 -0800
>>From: Lee Courtney <lcourtney at mvista.com>
>>To: scc_active at computerhistory.org
>>Subject: [SCC_Active_Members]  TONIGHT - Of Interest to SCC - From Gutenberg
>>     to Galaxy: Accessing Cultural Assets Online
>>Hi all,
>>
>>OK, ok - thanks to everyone who put me in the doghouse - this event is
>>tonight at the Museum!
>>
>>Sorry for the really last minute notice, but the following may be of
>>particular interest to SCC members.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Lee Courtney
>>
>>
>>CHM Presents "From Gutenberg to Galaxy: Accessing Cultural Assets Online"
>>
>>Moderator:
>>Rick Prelinger, President, Internet Archive
>>
>>Panelists:
>>-Czeslaw Jan Grycz, CEO, Octavo
>>-Paula Jabloner, Archivist, Computer History Museum
>>-Henry Lowood, Stanford Curator for History of Science and Technology
>>Collections
>>-Mark Mudge, CEO, Cultural Heritage Imaging
>>[snipped from here]>
>
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Henry Lowood, Ph.D.
Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections
Curator for Germanic Collections
HASRC, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford CA 94305-6004
EMAIL: lowood at stanford.edu    PH: 650-723-4602 
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