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Digitising Charles Babbage at the Science Museum, London: Managing Expectations, Enabling Access (2018)

Wyatt, Nicholas J. (Author)

Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
Volume: 21
Pages: 56-62

URI: https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/circumhc/article/view/36680

DOI: 10.23925/1980-7651.2018v21;p56-62

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Databases Primary literature (historical sources) Digitization London (England) Babbage, Charles Science Museum Science Museum, London

The papers of Charles Babbage at the Science Museum were historically catalogued in different ways and remained difficult to consult, but their digitisation in 2011 and subsequent incremental release online have increased access world-wide. This paper describes how such access has gradually fulfilled expectations of scholars world-wide, while catering for other audiences. It examines the challenges the Science Museum has faced and the role that archivists, historians and digital professionals have had in making digital access to the archives and related objects possible.

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