Peter Homulos: founder of the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN), 1972-1992

Peter Homulos recounts how he went from being a geology student to a director of the National Inventory Programme, the precursor of the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN), all before he was 30 years old. The mandate of the Programme was to maintain the records of Canada’s cultural properties, but it evolved into creating a computerized inventory of collections to facilitate the sharing of information. It was also responsible for research and development on information management, collections documentation standards and collections management systems. From a modern perspective, it is difficult to convey how groundbreaking and even controversial this initiative was.

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Peter Homulos: founder of the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN), 1972-1992 is an episode from CCI and CHIN: In Our Words by Canadian Conservation Institute.

This episode is 00:38:48 long.

This episode was published on Jun 9, 2021.

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