Software and Souls; Programs and Packages.
The author discusses the challenges software poses to historians. Topics covered include the divide between hardware and software, the display of computer software in museums and archives, the problems being faced by curators and archivists in exhibiting computer software in museums, the platform st...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 9; pp. 31 - 35 |
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| Formato: | Opinion |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Sep2013
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| Sumario: | The author discusses the challenges software poses to historians. Topics covered include the divide between hardware and software, the display of computer software in museums and archives, the problems being faced by curators and archivists in exhibiting computer software in museums, the platform studies launched by historians Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort which are found in their book "Racing the Beam," the idea of software as a package, and the history of the practice of sharing computer programs. |
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