Article ID: CBB001213642

Computerizing Natural History Collections (2013)

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Computers are ubiquitous in the life sciences and are associated with many of the practical and conceptual changes that characterize biology's twentieth-century transformation. Yet comparatively little has been written about how scientists use computers. Despite this relative lack of scholarly attention, the claim that computers revolutionized the life sciences by making the impossible possible is widespread, and relatively unchallenged. How did the introduction of computers into research programs shape scientific practice? The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) at the University of California, Berkeley provides a tractable way into this under-examined question because it is possible to follow the computerization of data in the context of long-term research programs.

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Description On how computers transformed the study of the life sciences in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley.


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Authors & Contributors
Sunderland, Mary Evelyn
Patterson, Zabet
Ginevra Sanvitale
Julia Gül Erdogan
Wiehle, Hans Rüdiger
Tietge, David J.
Concepts
Computers and computing
Technology
Computer users
Biology
Science and technology, relationships
Natural history
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Australia
California (U.S.)
Institutions
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (University of California, Berkeley)
University of California, Berkeley
RAND Corporation
United States Navy
National Institute of Health (U.S.)
United States. National Bureau of Standards
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