Tucson / Detroit / New York City / Boston / New York / Washington / DC / Victoria / Fayetteville / New Haven / /
Company
Museum Data Bank Coordinating / Digital Equipment Corp. / theResearch Libraries Group / RCA / Apple computer / Archaeological Data Bank / Oxford University Press / IBM / Automatic Data Processing / Burroughs Equipment Corp. / Eastman Kodak Company / National Endowment / International Species Inventory Systems / Canadian Heritage Information Network / Willoughby Associates Ltd. / MCA / J. Paul Getty Trust / Getty A H P / Getty Trust / /
Country
Canada / Australia / United Kingdom / United States / /
Currency
ADP / USD / /
Event
Company Expansion / Employment Change / Business Partnership / /
Facility
National Museum of Natural History / Museum of Modem Art / Museum of Fine Art-Boston / Syracuse University / Lowe Art Museum / Museum Prototype Project / Peabody Museum / MIT Museum / Museum of Modern Art / Library Resources / Museum of Fine Arts / Field Museum / University of Florida / University of Arizona / Boston's Children Museum / Smithsonian Institution-National Museum of American Art / National Gallery of Art / Museum Informatics / National Museum / International Museum of Photography / Harvard University / Dallas Museum of Art / Metropolitan Museum of Art / Detroit Institute / Museum Informatics Project / Albert Museum / Information Age Katherine Jones-Garmil Peabody Museum of Archaeology / Peabody Museum of Archaeology / State University of New York / Boston Children's Museum / Museum Computer Network / Computer Interchange of Museum Information / Canadian Museum of Civilization / Children's Museum / University of Arkansas / Library Automation / Museum Support Center / Museum Data Bank Coordinating Committee / Harvard Peabody Museum / Ethnology atHarvard University / Arizona State Museum / Detroit Institute of Arts / Yale University / /
IndustryTerm
client server / database products / telecommunications industry / imaging / local and global networks / automation technologies / integrated multiple media cultural heritage information resources / museum applications / on-line access / web search engines / early applications / computing / stable database applications / museum automation systems / improved storage devices / exhibition management / overall systems developer / videodisk product / multimedia and networking technologies / Consumer products / analog videodisk systems / /
OperatingSystem
Macintosh / /
Organization
MCN Board of Directors / Bureau of Historic / Florida Bureau of Historic Sites and Properties / Museum Documentation Association / College Art Association / Scientific Information Retrieval System 1982-1st Space Shuttle Mission / RAMA / Task Force / American Association of Museums / Art Information Task Force / Archaeology and Ethnology atHarvard University / Smithsonian Institution / Oxford University / Smithsonian / Council on Library Resources / Harvard University / Program Office / National Science Foundation / MIT / National Endowment for the Humanities / Florida Department of State / University of Arkansas / 1963-ADP Committee / Smithsonian's Museum Support Center / Yale University / State University of New York / Detroit Institute of Arts / Detroit Institute of the Arts / University of California office / Media Lab / United Nations / Syracuse University / University of Florida / University of Arizona / American Association for State and Local History / National Endowment for the Arts / Media Lab at MIT / /
Person
John Perkins / Dan Jones / Lenore Sarasan / Toni Petersen / James Blackaby / Jack Heller / Frank Fryman / Helen Allen / Patricia Moholt / Rus Gant / Dora Crouch / Robert Chenhall / Bill Mayhew / Nicholas Negroponte / Vince Wilcox / David Vance / /
Position
executive director / president / I11-time director / One of the consortium members / professor of Computer Science / assistant / programmer / one of the first members / special software consultant / consultant / first President of the Board of Directors / leader / director / data model for botanical collections / former member / President of MCN and MCN left Stony Brook / /
Product
PC / Potential Application / /
ProgrammingLanguage
DC / /
ProvinceOrState
New York / Michigan / New Mexico / Arizona / Victoria / Florida / Massachusetts / Arkansas / /
PublishedMedium
Natural History / Archaeology / /
Technology
RAM / SGML / distance learning / multimedia and networking technologies / digital imaging / using automation technologies / museum using OCR technology / /
Museums in the Information Age Katherine Jones-Garmil Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA USA These are exciting times for museums. Through new technologies like digital imaging