Vendors Providing Archival and Historical
Services for IT Related Activities
Constultants
The following organizations and individuals provide
archival, oral history,or other historical services on a consulting
basis. Many of the companies listed here have a broad range of
clients across business history or history of technology; they
may not specialize in Information Technology history, but they
have some expertise appropriate to conducting IT history projects.
THE HAIGH GROUP
Oral histories, software patent prior art research, contract
biographies and articles.
Relevant experience: Ph.D. in history of computing
from Penn, M.Eng & B.Sc. in computer science. Worked on more
than 30 oral histories and eight patents. Author of many articles
on history of computing, particularly on business use of IT and
the software industry. Chair of SIGCIS group in SHOT and SIGHFIS
in ASIS&T. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing biographies
editor. Winner of Tomash, IEEE Life Member, Fulbright and William
Penn fellowships.
Individuals
The list of individuals below is limited to
people who have direct experience doing various kinds of archival,
oral history, or historical work in the IT history area and who
have expressed an interest in taking on new clients.
WILLIAM ASPRAY
Historical research and writing, oral history interviewing and
transcript editing, preparation of historical exhibits, advice
on archival collection (appraisal of historical value of collections,
determination of appropriate repositories for collections)
- on any aspect of IT history in any time period.
Relevant experience: Have been working in IT
history for more than 30 years. Have taught at Harvard, Indiana,
Minnesota, Penn, Rutgers, Williams. Have held senior management
positions at the Charles Babbage Institute (for IT History),
IEEE History Center, Computing Research Association. Currently
hold distinguished chair in the School of Information, University
of Texas. Have written on academic, government, and corporate
aspects of computing. Written or edited 20 books and conducted
almost 200 oral histories. Sample projects: commissioned history
of computing at the National Science Foundation, corporate history
of Symantec. Written or writing books on John von Neumann, the
Internet and American business, offshoring, informatics of diabetes,
privacy in America, women and IT, and many other topics.
PENNY AHLSTRAND
Email: ppapersonal@hotmail.com
Archive Consultant
GLENN
BUGOS
Email: Web@MomentLLC.com
Archive Consultant
Web Archiving Services
ARCHIVE-IT
Archive-It, a subscription service from the Internet Archive,
allows institutions to build and preserve collections of digital
content creating Digital Archives. Through a user-friendly
web application, Archive-It partners can harvest, catalog,
manage, and browse their archived collections. Collections
are hosted and stored at the Internet Archive data center and
are easily accessible with full-text search.
Museum Services
Because we are less familiar with museum services,
we point our readers to an already existing list of museum vendors,
provided on the web
site of Museums USA.
Disclaimer: The IT History Society lists these
companies and individuals as a convenience to organizations that
are interested in undertaking archival, exhibit, oral history,
or historical research and writing projects related to IT history.
No endorsement of any of these vendors is implied and the IT
History Society assumes no liability for work they do.
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