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Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp)
VLmp logo
VLmp logo
Available inEnglish
Founded1994
HeadquartersUniversity of Oxford (in 1994),
Oxford
,
United Kingdom
Area servedWorldwide
Created byJonathan Bowen et al.
Founder(s)Jonathan Bowen
IndustryMuseums
ServicesWeb directory
ParentVirtual Library;
International Council of Museums
URLmuseums.fandom.com
Launched1994
Current statusHosted by MuseumsWiki

The Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp) formed an early leading directory of online museums around the world.[1][2]

History

The VLmp online directory resource was founded by Jonathan Bowen in 1994, originally at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory in the United Kingdom,[3][4] It has been supported by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and Museophile Limited.[5][6] as part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library, initiated by Tim Berners-Lee and later managed by Arthur Secret.[7] The main VLmp site moved to London South Bank University in the early 2000s and is now hosted on the MuseumsWiki wiki, established in 2006 and hosted by Fandom (previously Wikia).[8]

The directory was developed and organised in a distributed manner by country, with around twenty people in different countries maintaining various sections. Canada, through the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN),[9] was the first country to become involved. The MDA maintained the United Kingdom section of museums,[10] later the Collections Trust.[11] The Historisches Centrum Hagen has maintained and hosted pages for Germany.[12] Other countries actively participating included Romania.[13] In total, around 20 countries were involved.[5]

The directory was influential in the museum field during the 1990s and 2000s.[14][15] It was used as a standard starting point to find museums online.[16] It was useful for monitoring the growth of museums internationally online.[17] It was also used for online museum surveys.[18][19] It was recommended as an educational resource[20][21] and included a search facility.[22]

Virtual Museum of Computing

Virtual Museum of Computing (VMoC)
Alan Turing portrait
The pioneer of computer science, Alan Turing, who has featured especially in the Virtual Museum of Computing, in collaboration with Andrew Hodges.[23]
Available inEnglish
Founded1 June 1995 (1995-06-01)
HeadquartersUniversity of Oxford (in 1995),
Oxford
,
United Kingdom
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of locationsMirror sites around the world
Area servedWorldwide
OwnerInternational Council of Museums (ICOM)
Created byJonathan Bowen
Founder(s)Oxford University Computing Laboratory
EditorsJonathan Bowen, Andrew Hodges
Key peopleJonathan Bowen
IndustryMuseums
ServicesVirtual museum
ParentVirtual Library museums pages (VLmp)
URLmuseums.fandom.com
CommercialNo
Launched2 June 1995; 29 years ago (1995-06-02)
Current statusArchival site hosted by MuseumsWiki

The Virtual Museum of Computing (VMoC), part of the Virtual Library museums pages, was created as an eclectic collection of links and online resources concerning the history of computers and computer science.[24][25][23] It was designed to provided links to other related computing 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.[23]

This virtual museum was founded by Jonathan Bowen on 1 June 1995 (announced on 2 June 1995[26]), originally at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory in the United Kingdom.[27] It has been supported by Museophile Limited[28] and forms part of VLmp, supported by the International Council of Museums (ICOM).[29] 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 in archival form as a wiki on the MuseumsWiki, hosted on Fandom (formerly Wikia).[30]

The resource has been widely cited in books[31] and academic publications.[32] It was created tp provide information on computer history[33] and act as an educational resource.[34] It has hosted information on history of computing events.[35] The resource has been described internationally, including in Russian.[36]

See also

References

  1. ^ Turner, Nancy B. (1999). "Virtual Library Museums Pages". Electronic Resources Review. 3 (2). Emerald Group Publishing: 27–28. doi:10.1108/err.1999.3.2.27.26. ISSN 1364-5137.
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  3. ^ Bowen, Jonathan P. (2002). "Weaving the Museum Web: The Virtual Library museums pages". Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems. 36 (4): 236–252. doi:10.1108/00330330210447208.
  4. ^ Bowen, Jonathan P. (1997). Bearman, David; Trant, Jennifer (eds.). "The Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp): Whence and Whither?". Museums and the Web, 1997: Selected Papers. Archives & Museum Informatics, 5501 Walnut Street, Suite 203, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15232-2311, USA. pp. 9–25.
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  11. ^ "Museums around the UK on the Web". Collections Trust. 2010. Archived from the original on 3 July 2010. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
  12. ^ "Online Activities". Germany: Historisches Centrum Hagen. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
  13. ^ Oberlaender-Tarnoveanu, L. (1999). "CIMEC – A Web Site for Romanian Archaeology: Dissemination by Integration" (PDF). Bar International Series. Vol. 750. pp. 169–174.
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  17. ^ Veltman, Kim H. (2001). Valentino, P.; Mossetto, G. (eds.). "Developments in Virtual Museums ("La crescita nel settore dei musei virtuali")" (PDF). Museo contro museo. Le strategie, gli strumenti, i risultati (in Italian). Giunti, Firenze.
  18. ^ Hertzum, Morten (1999). "A review of museum web sites: in search of user-centred design". Archives and Museum Informatics. 12 (2): 127–138. doi:10.1023/A:1009009104685.
  19. ^ Flor, Carla; Vanzin, Tarcisco; Ulbricht, Vania Ribas. "Virtual Museums: Diagnosis Accessibility ("Museus Virtuais: Diagnóstico de Acessibilidade")". Hipermídias: Interfaces Digitais em Ead: 126–152, 187–189. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.697.563.
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  21. ^ Provenzo, Eugene F.; Gotthoffer, Doug (2000). Quick guide to the Internet for education. Allyn and Bacon. p. 104. ISBN 978-0205309627.
  22. ^ Brano, Rovy (1 September 2001). "Web & Wild – Virtual Library Museum Pages" (PDF). TechTrends. 45 (5). Springer: 49, 24. doi:10.1007/BF03017091. S2CID 189911244.
  23. ^ 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.
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  28. ^ "Virtual Museum of Computing". Museophile Limited. Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  29. ^ "Virtual Museum of Computing". Virtual Library museums pages. International Council of Museums. Archived from the original on 10 October 2014. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  30. ^ "Virtual Museum of Computing". MuseumsWiki. Fandom. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  31. ^ "Virtual Museum of Computing VMoC". Google Books. Google. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
  32. ^ "Virtual Museum of Computing VMoC". Google Scholar. Google. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
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  34. ^ 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.
  35. ^ Kita, Chigusa (ed.). "Events and Sightings Web Extras". history.computer.org. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
  36. ^ Максимова, Т. Е. "Виртуальные музеи: анализ понятия" [Virtual museums: analysis of the concept]. cyberleninka.ru. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
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