[SIGCIS-Members] Documenting Swedish IT-history

[Per Lundin]

You might be interested in the results of a rather large project on
documenting Swedish IT-history from a user-centered perspective, which was
finished last year. The project, called From Computing Machines to IT, was a
collaboration between the Div. of History of Science and Technology at KTH,
The Swedish Computer Society and the Swedish National Museum of Science and
Technology. It aimed to create, collect, preserve and disseminate sources on
how computing shaped and transformed Swedish society between 1950 and 1980. 

In the project, more than 160 oral history interviews were conducted, almost
50 so-called witness seminars were arranged, and about 230 written
recollections were acquired with the help of traditional questionnaires as
well as Internetbased collection of memories. The created sources consist of
more than 8,000 pages of text. 

The material is, unfortunately, at least for non-Scandinavians, in Swedish,
but we have provided the oral history interviews and the witness seminars
with abstracts in English. The material is accessible on the Internet as
fully searchable pdf-files. The project and the created and collected
sources are furthermore contextualized, described and evaluated in a final
report available in English at: http://en.scientificcommons.org/54397748 or
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-11945. The final report
provides links to the material. Swedish speaking users might also benefit
from the website: www.ithistoria.se. 

Best regards,
Per

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Per Lundin
Div. of History of Science and Technology
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
SE-100 44 Stockholm
Sweden

Phone: +46 8 790 87 41
Fax: +46 8 24 62 63
http://www.teknikhistoria.se
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