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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.[1]
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) is an eclectic collection of links and online resources concerning the history of computers and computer science.[2][3][1] It includes links to other related 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.[1]

This virtual museum was founded by Jonathan Bowen on 1 June 1995 (announced on 2 June 1995[4]), originally at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory in the United Kingdom.[5] It has been supported by Museophile Limited[6] and also forms part of the Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp), supported by the International Council of Museums (ICOM).[7] 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 as a wiki on the MuseumsWiki, hosted on Fandom (formerly Wikia).[8]

The resource has been widely cited in books[9] and academic publications.[10] It was created tp provide information on computer history[11] and act as an educational resource.[12] It has hosted information on history of computing events.[13] The resource has been described internationally, including in Russian.[14]

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References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Virtual Museum of Computing Web Site". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 18 (4): 67. 1996.
  3. ^ Leslie, Mitch (14 September 2001). "Memory lane". Science. 293 (5537). Washington: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
  4. ^ "The Virtual Museum of Computing". Google Groups. Google. 2 June 1995.
  5. ^ Bowen, Jonathan P. (2010). "A Brief History of Early Museums Online". The Rutherford Journal. 3.
  6. ^ "Virtual Museum of Computing". Museophile Limited. Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  7. ^ "Virtual Museum of Computing". Virtual Library museums pages. International Council of Museums. Archived from the original on 10 October 2014. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  8. ^ "Virtual Museum of Computing". MuseumsWiki. Fandom. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  9. ^ "Virtual Museum of Computing VMoC". Google Books. Google. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
  10. ^ "Virtual Museum of Computing VMoC". Google Scholar. Google. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
  11. ^ Farr, Graham; Ainsworth, Barbara; Avram, Chris; Sheard, Judy (February 2016). Computer History on the Move. SIGCSE '16: Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 528–533. doi:10.1145/2839509.2844575.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ Kita, Chigusa (ed.). "Events and Sightings Web Extras". history.computer.org. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
  14. ^ Максимова, Т. Е. "Виртуальные музеи: анализ понятия" [Virtual museums: analysis of the concept]. cyberleninka.ru. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
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