Article ID: CBB001320292

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 Looks at computerization at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley.


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Authors & Contributors
Sunderland, Mary Evelyn
November, Joseph Adam
François Tessier
Nicolas MacCordick
Schaffzin, Gabriel Yuval
Gadys Bruyninx
Concepts
Computers and computing
Biology
Visual representation; visual communication
Natural history
Scientific illustration
Digitization
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
18th century
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
Sweden
Institutions
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (University of California, Berkeley)
McGill University (Canada)
Lincoln Laboratory
National Institute of Health (U.S.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
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