Introduction
Survey and audit of current e-Humanities research in Australia and internationally
Opportunities for e-Humanities research in Australia
December 2003 workshop
Structure of the proposed Network
Report of the Print Cultures Network
Print Cultures Network: Annotated hyperlinks
Database
List of annotated hyperlinks
Participants in Special Research Initiative Projects
LINKS TO DIGITAL PROJECTS AND NETWORK RESOURCES IN THE HUMANITIES |
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Academy Editions of Australian Literature |
A series of full-scale critical editions of major works of Australian Literature, sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities. |
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ANU Scholarly Technology Service Digital Resources Program |
The DRP is responsible for assisting in the management, creation and maintenance of digital information resources developed within or by the university. Main areas of concern are: [1] the production and capture of digital resources, [2] digital repositories, [3] XML-based publishing frameworks, and [4] exemplar projects (i.e., projects that can be used as exemplars, particularly those that use new techniques or break new ground in some way). |
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AusAnthrop Database |
AusAnthrop is an on-line database of Australian Aboriginal tribes, nations, languages, and dialectal groups. It is a reference database that should help to find a tribe or language from the many alternative names and spellings used in the literature. The database contains alternative names, some places of location, bibliographic references, a links to archival files at the South Australian Museum, linguistic classifications such as those by the SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) and the AIATSIS (Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies), as well as the name given in EAA (Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia). |
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Australian Literature Gateway (AustLit) |
The AustLit Gateway is an electronic resource for the study and teaching of Australian literature. It provides authoritative information on hundreds of thousands of creative and critical Australian literature works - published in a range of print and electronic sources - and on more than 65,000 Australian authors and literary organisations, covering the period 1780 to the present. |
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Australian Digital Theses Program |
The aim of the ADT project is to create a national collaborative distributed database of digitised theses produced at Australian Universities. The ADT database provides access to PhD and Masters by Research theses only. not currently web-accessible, or web address unknown |
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Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845 |
The Australian Periodical Publications is a digital library of Australian journals that began publication between 1840-1845. The digitised titles are available on the Web as multipage PDF files. |
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Australian Sound Design Project |
The Australian Sound Design Project is the first national website and database dedicated to researching and publishing original works and the discourse relating to sound and its design in public space. The project is hosted by the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne and funded by a large grant from the Australian Research Council. Sound designs already published on this site include permanent, public and ephemeral sound works, sculptures, time dense computerised sound installations, museum designs, exhibits in airports, art galleries, car parks, digital and interactive media exhibitions, and real-time virtual habitats on and off the web. |
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Awaba: A Database of Historical Materials Relating to the Aborigines of the Newcastle - Lake Macquarie Region |
Awaba is an electronic database containing introductions to and short articles on the history, culture and language of the Aboriginal peoples of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie (Awaba) region of New South Wales. |
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Berndt Museum of Anthropology Web Service |
A searchable database of descriptions of objects held in the Berndt Museum of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia. It includes digitisations of photographs of Kimberley objects and a guided tour of the Berndt Museum. |
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Bonza |
A fully accessible and searchable online Australian and New Zealand film history database compiled by Cinema Studies students at RMIT University. not currently web-accessible, or web address unknown |
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Central Coast Campuses Subject Listings in the Humanities |
A partnership of the Central Coast Community College, TAFE NSW Hunter Institute, and the University of Newcastle. Provides links to general online resources in the Humanities. http://www.ccc.newcastle.edu.au/library/subject-resources/humanities.htm |
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Consortium for Research and Information Outreach (CRIO) |
CRIO was formed by the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research and the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University as a centre to explore the use of digital media as a research tool and to disseminate the products of research. The main aim of CRIO is to use digital media to bring the results of research to a wider audience than is normally reached by traditional academic publishing. |
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Creator-to-Consumer (C2C) Publishing |
The Creator-to-Consumer (C2C) system is an online publishing environment intended to connect authors with publishers and to manage the publishing workflow. It is a joint project of RMIT University and Common Ground Publishing, funded by the Infrastructure and Industry Growth Fund (IIGF), Book Production Enhanced Printing Industry Competitiveness Scheme (EPICS) Grants, Commonwealth Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources. |
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Curtin University of Technology South East Asia Resources Database |
The South Asia Resources Database contains over 120,000 records listing resources about South Asia available in Australia and over 150,000 records of South Asian materials not known to be held in Australia. The database is part of a Project titled South Asia: Renovating the National Collection, which has been funded by the ARC and a consortium of institutions which teach and research in the field of South Asia, including Curtin University of Technology, La Trobe University, Flinders University, Monash University, University of New England, University of Sydney, Australia National University and the National Centre for South Asian Studies. |
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Digital Songlines Initiative |
The Digital Songlines Initiative uses virtual reality hardware and software and multi-user technologies to illustrate significant Aboriginal spaces within the Carnarvon National Park in Queensland. It seeks to create a virtual space that allows hundreds of users to enter and experience the spiritual and pragmatic significance of the spaces in the Carnarvon cave as well as other aspects of the surrounding 15km landscape.
http://www.creativeindustries.qut.edu.au/people/staff/next.jsp? |
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dotlit: The Online Journal of Creative Writing |
dotlit is an online publication featuring an edited selection of the best new and innovative fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction writing. It focuses on works that utilise hypertext and other interactive and multimedia writing. |
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The electronic Writing Research ensemble (eWRe) |
The electronic Writing Research ensemble seeks to contribute to research on writing, and to writing as research, by facilitating a continuing inventive practise, a composing and recomposing, of texuality that is interdisciplinary, poetic, critical, and personal. eWRe encourages forms that link the literary, scholarly, arts, industrial and social communities. |
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The Endeavour Project |
The Endeavour Project is a conceptually innovative web-based hypermedia project focused on James Cook's Pacific voyaging (1768-1779). The project has two interrelated goals. First, it employs web-based hypermedia to pursue new lines of research into James Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768-71), and to explore how the resulting encounters with Indigenous Australian and Oceanic peoples changed European intellectual and cultural history. Secondly, the outcomes of this research will be used to develop an environment and associated management structures for the implementation of scholarly editing standards for historical documents in flexible digital formats. |
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NSW HSC Online |
NSW HSC Online aims to provide support for all students studying for the NSW Higher School Certificate and, in so doing, enhance particularly the prospects of students in rural areas support for teachers preparing students for the NSW HSC, particularly those teachers working in rural school. It also aims to provide a vehicle by which interested parties may gain access to the deliberations, publications and activities of the various subject associations an environment in which the various parties involved in the HSC enterprise may communicate via the Web. Finally, it seeks to provide assistance for schools in establishing communications via the Web. |
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Indigenous Collections Management Project |
The Indigenous Collections Management Project aims to investigate how information technology tools and standards can be refined and extended to enable indigenous communities to preserve and protect their unique indigenous cultures, knowledge and artefacts. |
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inflect |
inflect is an Australian e-journal devoted to creative multimedia work and innovative writing. It seeks to encourage writers to adopt electronic and multimedia formats for their work. |
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Interempty Space - The Re-Occupation of Berlin |
Interempty Space uses the device of Wim Wenders' two angels in his Berlin films (Wings of Desire (1987) & Faraway So Close (1993)) to provide a portrait of the city of Berlin. |
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Komninos Cyberpoet |
This is a website dedicated to the cyberpoetry of Komninos Zervos, one of Australia's most popular performance poets. |
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Lore of the Land |
A cutting edge interactive documentary CD-Rom and website for those seeking a better understanding of how we, as non-indigenous Australians, are connected to our country. Covers issues such as the challenges of landscapes, demographics, history, social realities, legal judements in land-law, leisure activities in relation to land use and the diverse cultural backgrounds of the newly arrived to this land we call home. |
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Milkbar.com.au: Globalisation and the Everyday City |
This project seeks to offer a speculative encounter with various ideas concerning 'globalisation' through utilising some of the new tools offered to researchers. Using a mini digital video camera, I have recorded a number of people in the suburb of Fitzroy, an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Australia, asking people what they identify with in the suburb, how this has changed over time, and what they see as negative or positive changes. Succinctly, the raison d'etre of the project is to create an oral history archive of the area in a period of rapid change and to try and understand some of these changes within larger analytical frameworks. |
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Multimedia Art Asia Pacific (MAAP) |
MAAP is a not-for-profit organisation that seeks to promote excellence in art and technology in Australia/Asia Pacific regions. MAAP showcases a wide range of unique art and technology projects. It provides a space for artists, multimedia developers, screen practitioners, and sound artists to exhibit and profile work, including new media installations, web designs, digital graphics, animation, video, sound, photography, CD-ROM, and Internet projects. |
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National Networked Facility for Research in Australian Music (NFRAM) |
NFRAM exists to promote the exploration and mapping of Australian musical culture. Its goals and objectives are:
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PANIC (Preservation and Archival of New Media and Interactive Collections) |
PANIC aims to investigate alternative approaches to the archival and preservation of multimedia/new media artworks and to determine the optimum approaches for ensuring their longevity and facilitate their redisplay. |
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Pacific and Regional Archive of Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) |
PARADISEC offers a facility for digital conservation and access for endangered sound recordings from the Pacific region, defined broadly to include Oceania and East and Southeast Asia. We give priority to unique materials that have no alternative institution for lodgement and preservation and/or whose media are in danger of deterioration. |
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The Reason! Project |
The Reason! Project develops software to support reasoning and argument in all fields. |
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rmit HyperText project |
The RMIT HyperText project is based on the following principles: empower student learning through hypertext writing; combine theory into practice; develop novel academic hypertext genre or genres; available and low technology solutions; integrated technological solutions. |
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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages |
The general objective of the Skaldic Poetry project is to produce a new edition of the entire known corpus of Norse-Icelandic skaldic poetry. |
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The South Seas Project |
The aim of the South Seas Project is to produce an on-line companion to James Cook's momentous first voyage of discovery. It will offer the complete text of the holograph manuscript of James Cook's Endeavour Journal, together with the full text of the journal kept by Joseph Banks on the voyage, and the text of all three volumes of John Hawkesworth's Account of the Voyages undertaken in the Southern Hemisphere. The South Seas Project is a collaborative research venture involving the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University, the National Library of Australia, and the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre at the University of Melbourne. |
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Speak |
Speak is a hypertext essay. A grey-on-white contents screen is made up of intricate rows of single words, such as 'love, scar, risk, break', each linked to an intricate web of meditations and associations. |
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Study of the Roots of the Basque Language using the Materials of Azkue¹s Dictionary |
This study uses the root vocabulary of the Basque Language as defined by Azkue¹s dictionary. It attempts to explore the usefulness of using Azkue's list and deploys a computationally-based analysis strategy to see what wealth of understanding it might bring or at least lead to by further human based interpretation. http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jonpat/az_an_files/azkue_analysis.html |
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Sydney TimeMap Project |
The objective of the Sydney TimeMap project is to use the TimeMap methodology and TimeMap software to present the history of Sydney in an innovative, entertaining and interactive way while at the same time creating a scholastically valuable resource.
http://www.archaeology.usyd.edu.au/timemap/showcase/ |
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Theatres Online |
Theatres Online is a software program developed to facilitate the exploration of theatre space from both practical and theoretical perspectives. Using virtual reality technology, it demonstrates how 'virtual' theatre can make the operation and production of theatre in the 'real' world easier and more cost effective. The additional facility to place props and sets within the recognisable location of La Boite or the Powerhouse Theatre makes this software unique in theatre studies and in computer modelling work. |
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AUSTRALIAN HUMANITIES: UNIQUE LIBRARY RESOURCES |
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Australian Education Index |
The Australian Education Index provides a complex and sophisticated subscription database consisting of more than 130 000 entries relating to educational research, policy and practice. It is relevant to a wide range of people interested in education from schools and universities as well as the researcher. It covers the period 1979 to the present. AEI is available online through subscriptions with Informit Online and Dialog (as International ERIC). |
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Australian Federation Full Text Database |
The Australian Federation Full Text Database contains key texts that record the making of the Australian Commonwealth. It includes the digitisation of the Debates of the Federal Conventions of the 1890s as well as a large selection of the writings of contemporaries of Federation. |
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Australian Literary and Historical Texts |
Australian Literary and Historical Texts is a collection of over 150 Australian fiction, poetry, plays and non-fictional works, which has been put together from a number of different sources. Ii includes comprehensive collections of the poems of Banjo Paterson, Henry Kendall, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Ada Cambridge, Lesbia Harford and Christopher Brennan. The collection also includes most of the novels of Henry Handel Richardson and the stories of Henry Lawson, as well as other canonical novels such as Marcus Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life, Rolf Boldrewood's Robbery Under Arms, and Joseph Furphy¹s Such is Life. |
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French HUSSAR |
French HUSSARR aims to provide greater access for Australian researchers to French-based resources in the humanities and social sciences (excluding law). |
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John Anderson Papers at the University of Sydney |
John Anderson was arguably the most important philosopher who has ever worked in Australia. This collection contains the full text of a number of his lectures as well as a thematic guide and articles and commentaries by Anderson's students. |
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John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library Electronic Research Archive |
The John Curtin Electronic Research Archive has been developed by the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library to enhance access to the JCPML collection of personal papers, photographs, oral histories, copies of official records and other archival material relating to the life and times of John Curtin. Where possible, original documents are digitised. Where this is not possible, copies of originals are scanned. |
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John Tranter's Writing |
This is a site dealing with John Tranter's writing, hosted by the University of Sydney Library, Australia. |
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Mary Shelley, Life of William Godwin |
The aim of this project is to prepare an electronic edition of previously unpublished 18th and 19th-century manuscripts and microfilms of Mary Shelley's Life of William Godwin (composed in the years 1836 to 1840). The project engages scholarly text-editing of primary sources and archival texts and research in eighteenth-century, Romantic and Victorian literature and their historical, cultural, and print-technology contexts. The project has theoretical implications in the application of theories of textual editing, and beyond its basic aim of making this work available in an appropriate form, undertakes a pilot study for further scholarly editions of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary texts from primary manuscript and unpublished sources. |
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La Trobe University Library Medieval Music Database |
The Medieval Music Database, first mounted on the Internet in 1994 and expanded in 1996, contains 75,000 works. One may browse the database by composer, genre, manuscript, or the music and texts for each feast of the liturgical year. |
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University of Melbourne Meanjin Archive |
Contains archival resources on Australian literature and culture from 1940-1974. http://buffy.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/special/meanjin-search.html |
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University of Newcastle Digital Scriptorium |
The Digital Scriptorium provides access to all the scanned and digitised materials from the Archives, Manuscript and Rare Book collections at the University of Newcastle. The digitised materials cover a range of rare books, multimedia productions, archive manuscripts, documents, and photographic collections.
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/services/library/collections/ |
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University of Queensland DIGILIB Architectural Image Database |
A collaborative project between the University of Queensland Library and Department of Architecture that aims to preserve and maximise access to collections of 35 mm slides held by individual lecturers. Currently holds over 1000 images, primarily of Queensland historic buildings. |
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Western Australian Writing: an on-line anthology |
Western Australian Writing brings together nearly 300 extracts from writings about Western Australia, ranging from William Dampier in 1703 to the present day. All genres are represented, and copyright material is included where permission for its use has been granted. |
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AUSTRALIAN HUMANITIES: GENERIC LIBRARY RESOURCES |
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University of Melbourne Media Collections |
Media Collections is the principal non-book, multimedia and audio-visual resource collection of the University of Melbourne. It supports the study, teaching and research of staff and students from faculties across the University. Collections include video, DVD, audio, kits, computer software, CDROMs, slides and posters. |
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Central Queensland University Electronic Resources |
This is a collection of electronic and database resources to support CQU teaching and research programmes. |
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Charles Darwin University Library Electronic Resources |
This is a collection of electronic and database resources to support Charles Darwin University teaching and research programmes. |
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Charles Sturt University Electronic Databases |
This is a collection of electronic and database resources to support CSU teaching and research programmes. not currently web-accessible, or web address unknown |
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Curtin University Library Electronic Resources |
This is a collection of electronic and database resources to support Curtin University teaching and research programmes. |
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Deakin University Library Electronic Resources |
This is a collection of electronic and database resources to support Deakin University teaching and research programmes. |
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Flinders University Library Information Resources |
This is a collection of electronic and database resources to support Flinders University teaching and research programmes. |
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Griffith University Library Electronic Resources |
This is a collection of electronic and database resources to support Griffith University teaching and research programmes. |
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James Cook University Electronic Databases |
This is a collection of database resources to support James Cook University teaching and research programmes. |
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La Trobe University Library Databases |
This is a collection of database resources to support La Trobe University teaching and research programmes. |
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Macquarie University Electronic Databases |
This is a collection of database resources to support Macquarie University teaching and research programmes. |
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Monash University Arts and Humanities Database |
This is a collection of database resources to support Monash University teaching and research programmes. |
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Murdoch University Library Electronic Resources |
This is a collection of electronic resources to support Murdoch University teaching and research programmes. |
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Southern Cross University Library Databases |
This is a collection of database resources to support Southern Cross University teaching and research programmes. |
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Queensland University of Technology Electronic Resources |
This is a collection of database resources to support QUT teaching and research programmes. |
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University of Adelaide Electronic Resources |
This is a collection of database resources to support UA teaching and research programmes. |
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University of Canberra Electronic Databases |
This is a collection of database resources to support University of Canberra teaching and research programmes. |
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University of Melbourne Electronic Databases |
This is a collection of database resources to support University of Melbourne teaching and research programmes. |
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University of Newcastle Library Electronic Resources |
This is a collection of electronic resources to support University of Newcastle teaching and research programmes. |
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University of New South Wales Electronic Resources |
This is a collection of electronic resources to support UNSW teaching and research programmes. |
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University of South Australia Internet resources for Digital/New Media |
This is a collection of database resources to support USA research programmes. not currently web-accessible, or web address unknown |
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University of Sydney Library Database Resources |
This is a collection of database resources to support USYD research programmes. |
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University of Tasmania Database Resources |
This is a collection of database resources to support UTAS research programmes. |
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University of Technology Sydney Database Resources |
This is a collection of database resources to support UTS research programmes. |
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University of Western Australia Electronic Resources |
This is a collection of electronic resources to support UWA teaching and research programmes. |
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University of Western Sydney Electronic Resources |
This is a collection of electronic resources to support UNSW teaching and research programmes. |
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University of Woolongong databases for academics and researchers |
This is a collection of database resources to support University of Woolongong research programmes.
http://www.library.uow.edu.au/eresources/databases/ |
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Victoria University Library Electronic Resources |
This is a collection of electronic resources to support UNSW teaching and research programmes. |
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PUBLIC SECTOR WEB SITES |
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Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive (ASEDA) |
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) holds computer-based (digital) materials about Australian Indigenous languages in the Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive (ASEDA). ASEDA has materials including dictionaries, grammars, teaching materials, and represents about 300 languages. ASEDA offers a free service of secure storage, maintenance, and distribution of electronic texts relating to these languages. |
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Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Library Digitisation Program |
In 2001, the AIATSIS Library commenced a two-year Digitisation Program, which is funded by ATSIC. The primary aim of the program is creating, managing and delivering electronic information resources and services to clients via the AIATSIS web site and the Library¹s catalogue (Mura). The focus of the program is increasing client awareness of the Library's collections and their access to it. |
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Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS) |
APAIS is a subject index to scholarly articles in the social sciences and humanities published in Australia, and to selected periodical articles, conference papers, book and newspaper articles on Australian economic, social, political and cultural affairs. |
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Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training: Information and Communication Technology Policies for Education and Training |
This searchable database contains information about Government ICT policies in Australia and selected countries. |
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Cyberpoets |
Cyberpoets is an online zine of poetry, where text is supplemented with image, sound and animation. |
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Digital Library of Indigenous Australia |
This is an interactive, online archive of photographs, press clippings, videos, sounds, and stories of indigenous culture, both past and present. |
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Documenting a Democracy: Australia's Story |
This site contains images and transcripts of 99 important documents relating to Australia's constitution. |
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Mathew Flinders Collection |
This project celebrates the bicentenary of Matthew Flinders' epic circumnavigation of Australia in HMS Investigator from 1801 to 1803. The site presents all Matthew Flinders' personal papers - his journals, letterbooks, charts and memorabilia - held in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, and is available through the State Library's home page in facsimile and, where appropriate, in transcription. |
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MusicAustralia |
The MusicAustralia vision is to develop a web-based music service that will provide integrated access to Australian music resources for all Australians and other interested users. It aims to make Australian music resources widely available, including music in all its formats, across styles and genres, and including heritage and contemporary material. |
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National Gallery of Victoria Collection |
The National Gallery of Victoria has undertaken to make public part of its collection online. Selected for viewing are many works on display at the Russell Street Gallery, as well as approximately 200 Australian paintings, 200 international paintings and 180 works on paper by William Blake. |
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Papers of Sir Edmund Barton |
The collection consists of correspondence, personal papers, press cuttings, photographs and papers relating to the Federation campaign and the first Parliament of the Australian Commonwealth. |
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PictureAustralia |
PictureAustralia is an Internet based service that allows you to search many significant online pictorial collections. Artworks include paintings, drawings, prints and posters of abstract art, fine art and portraits. Photographs capture people, places and events. Objects include sculpture, scrimshaw, bark, costume, weapons. Images may be in black and white or full colour. |
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Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) |
The National Library of Australia's Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) initiative aims to provide mechanisms that will help to ensure that information in digital form is managed with appropriate consideration for preservation and future access. Its objectives are [1] to facilitate the development of strategies and guidelines for the preservation of access to digital information; [2] to develop and maintain a web site for information and promotion purposes; [3] to actively identify and promote relevant activities; and [4] to provide a forum for cross-sectoral cooperation on activities promoting the preservation of access to digital information. |
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Screensound Australia: National Sound and Screen Archives |
An archive for the preservation, presentation and development of screen and sound culture in Australia. |
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Soundbyte.org: Soundhouse Interactive Network |
Soundbyte.org allows visitors to discover electronic and computer music production through a range of tutorials, to upload and listen to music created at school or in community organizations, and to participate in online virtual jam sessions with other musicians in remote locations. |
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OTHER ARC-FUNDED PROJECTS |
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The Omnium Project: Formalising a System and Approach for an Effective Online Collaborative Design |
Summary: An online collaborative design process is emerging in response to the global economy, increasing complexity of visual communication design projects and rapid developments in Internet technology. Research is required to identify and address the interdependence of various social, physical andtechnical factors that affect online design collaboration. The Omnium Project is an experiment that uses its unique framework to test online modes of interaction (physical) and collaboration (social) for visual communication designers. The outcome will produce an online technical-system and formalise a documented conceptual approach for effective online collaborative design in visual communication. Administering Institution: UNSW not currently web-accessible, or web address unknown |
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The Field of Artistic Production in Colonial Australia: People, Institutions, History |
This study of the development of Australian art in the nineteenth century focuses on the citizens, infrastructure and institutions that fostered the production of the visual arts. It eschews a Sydney-Melbourne bias in favour of the OEregions¹ and goes beyond OEprofessional¹ cultural elites to include amateurs, women, activists and entrepreneurs who cajoled the public and government into supporting a visual arts infrastructure. This study is of regional benefit and will interest art and cultural historians and policymakers in heritage management, cultural policy and cultural tourism. The outcomes will include a major book and a database of archival sources. not currently web-accessible, or web address unknown |
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Preserving Australia's endangered heritages: Murrinhpatha song at Wadeye |
This project will produce authoritative, thorough and archivally sound musicological and linguistic documentation of one of Australia's most vibrant indigenous song traditions, the public dance songs of Murrinhpatha people at Wadeye, NT. We will work with traditional owners to document three song genres (Dhanba, Wurlthirri, and Malkarrin) in the light of their historical and contemporary interrelationships with other local genres. More broadly, we will assess the song corpus as endangered cultural heritage of national and international significance, and will develop and apply appropriate electronic media interfaces to ensure long-term conservation and accessibility of the research within the community and outside. not currently web-accessible, or web address unknown |
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Asia-Pacific Cosmopolitanisms: Managing Diversity and Identity Politics in a Changing Regio |
Why can people of diverse cultural and other backgrounds sometimes devise ways of living together while, at other times, they can be drawn into racism and violence? Are there ways of coping with managing, even celebrating, human social, cultural, biological and sexual diversity that do not lead to conflict and exclusion? Are we seeing new cosmopolitanisms emerging? This research will investigate these questions by focusing on the Asia-Pacific region. The research will result in several publications (monographs, articles, etc.), a website/discussion forum, research database/resources facilities, a conference, and the consolidation of long-term collaborative links with Asian intellectuals. |
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Measuring and mapping the experience of racism in Australia |
This is the first empirical assessment of the circumstances and frequency of the experience of racism in Australia. A telephone survey, 12000 respondents, and fieldwork in ten localities, are the major method. Spatial and social variations in the experience of racism will be analysed. Social construction theory will be tested as an explanation of such variations. Regional anti-racism packages will be developed and tested in the field. Decision-support tools for local authorities and communities to combat racism will be provided. A unique racism database will underpin a scholarly monograph, doctoral dissertation and a series of refereed articles. not currently web-accessible, or web address unknown |
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The British Colonization of New South Wales: The Documentary Record, 1779-1792 |
The aim is to gather and publish all extant records relating to the British decision in 1786 to colonize New South Wales, and to the despatch of the First Fleet in 1787. Given that so many records remain but are still mostly unpublished, and that they are central to an accurate understanding of the development of modern Australia, this is a unique opportunity to document the origins of the nation for all posterity. Publication in book form, but and CD-Rom or Web publication (hopefully in conjunction with either the NLA or the SLNSW - or with both). not currently web-accessible, or web address unknown |
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The World Economy, India and Exchange Banks: 1850 1914 |
This project aims to examine how exchange banks linked India to an expanding world economy between 1850 and 1914, and to show, in turn, how this process was defined by an imperial relationship that tied India to Britain. Its significance lies in the fact that while the exchange banks were central to the circulation of capital during this period, their crucial role in shaping the development of capitalism in India has been largely ignored. Expected outcomes include conference presentations, at least three articles, a monograph, and a digitised map that links time and space in outlining the spread of such banks. not currently web-accessible, or web address unknown |
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Reformulating museological narrative using three models of cinematic interactivity |
This study aims to dramatically enhance the presentational flexibility of museum information delivery through the application of an immersive system of cinematic visualisation, modelling the integration of three kinds of interactive narrative. By allocating selective agency to both objects displayed and to viewers within a virtual environment, the system allows museum visitors to invest even static artefacts with a range of vivid narrative purpose. Through its installation within a major exhibition of the decorative arts at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, the application tests the semantic scope, museological integrity, and the interactive autonomy of the narrative agents foreshadowed in the model. not currently web-accessible, or web address unknown |
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Collaborating for Indigenous Rights: a 50 year retrospective exploring the history of black and white Australian activism, 1957-1972 |
The year 1957 marks the beginning of a fifteen-year period in which black and white Australians collaborated for Indigenous rights. Although this work began with a concentration on civil rights, by the end of the period a new set of rights was being sought based on the unique circumstances of Indigenous Australians. This project will explore the struggle for civil rights and the more radical proposition that other rights flowed to Indigenous Australians due to their original occupancy and dispossession. The proposed end products are a fully developed exhibition brief and catalogue essay, an on-line exhibition with supporting educational resource material and scholarly articles. not currently web-accessible, or web address unknown |
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An Integrated Large Scale Urban Model and Spatial Decision Support System Simulating Growth and Evaluating Sustainability Outcomes for Southeast Queensland |
A large scale urban model and spatial decision support system will be built for the South East Queensland region, Australia's third largest metropolis. GIS and visualisation are used to integrate diverse datasets to simulate real time growth and development patterns over the next 20 years. Population, housing, economic development and jobs growth forecasting models are integrated with a jobs housing-balance and urban form model to simulate growth and development scenarios that meet multi-criteria sustainability and urban planning objectives. The internet-accessible decision support system provides an improved evidence base for developing SEQ to enhance the Smart State Strategy. not currently web-accessible, or web address unknown |
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Evaluating the effectiveness of online support in building community, promoting healthy behaviours |
The Heart Foundation (WA) provides quality support services and communications for patients in rural, remote and regional WA but they find that distance creates problems. They also seek to cultivate active donor engagement. Audience research and cultural studies tools are used to investigate two different communications environments in terms of whether these have an effect on patient/donor participation rates (and attitudes and behaviours linked to participation). A web site will be developed to support online Heart Foundation communities and these audiences will be compared with current communication practice. Findings will inform future charitable and health promotion initiatives. not currently web-accessible, or web address unknown |
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Theatres Online: Achieving Theoretical and Practical Solutions to Problems of Theatre Space via Virtual Reality Computational Modeling |
This project merges theoretical and practical approaches to theatre production to make the complex phenomenon of theatre space more accessible to both researchers and industry professionals. It achieves this by providing a virtual reality model of selected theatres, so that users might better comprehend a venue¹s spatial dynamics. This dimensionally-accurate representation permits a full understanding of a theatre space (and its potential for performance) even from remote locations, thus potentially making the production of theatre more cost effective. There is no other such project in the theatre world or in computer modelling research. not currently web-accessible, or web address unknown |
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Building technologies and engagement processes for using spatialised data to enhance family and community outcomes in a region experiencing major change. |
The NSW Government¹s Families First Initiative (FFI) seeks delivery of more effective services to families with children. FFI agencies need information about children¹s life circumstances, risk of disadvantage, and the effectiveness of intervention programs. The project uses innovative techniques and processes to develop practitioner-friendly, finely-scaled indicators. The collaborators bring professional skills in service delivery to the project. The University researchers bring cross-disciplinary expertise in statistical/spatial modelling and policy analysis. Outcomes include PhD training, inter-agency engagement skills, new indicator techniques, high-impact contributions to literatures on quantification and state theory, and the development of an ongoing socio-spatial modelling facility. not currently web-accessible, or web address unknown |
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Voices From the West End: The Fremantle Living Histories Project |
'Voices From the West End' is a pioneering collaborative research project that focuses on the multifaceted history of the West End Conservation Area, Fremantle¹s central heritage district. The aim of the project is to assemble and interweave the multiple and varied voices of the people of the port city, past and present, so as to produce an historical mosaic reflecting its evolution from the time of settlement until the present day. This highly original project will produce histories in two formats: in publications designed to reach a wide scholarly audience, and in a digital interactive documentary form. not currently web-accessible, or web address unknown |
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Agreements, Treaties & Negotiated Settlements Project |
The project aims to examine treaty and agreement making with Indigenous Australians, including legal history and foundations, and the nature of the legal rights encompassed by agreements and treaties. It would include an audit of the current state of agreements with Indigenous parties, their purposes, status and outcomes; and would include international comparative research on treaty and agreement making. Outcomes would include a database on treaties and agreements in Australia and overseas and publication of collected papers and would contribute to the efforts by Indigenous organisations to secure political and economic rights through agreements with governments. |
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Aliens and Others: Representing citizenship and internments in Australia during WW2 |
This project will consider an episode in Australia's wartime history, the classification and internment of aliens in Australia during WW2, and analyse its different representations in historical discourse and personal and collective memory. In partnership with the National Museum of Australia and the National Archives of Australia, an on-line interactive exhibition and an archive incorporating written, spoken and visual memory will be developed, a public conference presented and scholarly articles written. These outcomes will be a dynamic multi-layered analysis of the changing interactions between history, personal and social memory. not currently web-accessible, or web address unknown |
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Images of Chinese in Australia, NZ and SE Asia, 1850-1950. |
This project combines historical analysis and database software to review all accessible extant images of Chinese in Australia & NZ for the period (and a selection of images from Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore), to (a) develop a sophisticated research tool for historians, which combines detailed annotations of content and context of images with means for cross referencing these against a framework of people, organisations, places, events, dates and concepts; (b) utilise this research tool, and visual discourse analysis, to investigate, for Australia and Asia: (i) how Chinese chose to represent themselves, and (ii) how Chinese were represented by Europeans. not currently web-accessible, or web address unknown |
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A cultural and historical analysis of Australian live theatre recordings preserved in the archives of ABC Television and Channel Nine |
This project aims to enhance the study of Australian theatre history with two PhD theses identifying and analysing the motion-picture records of live theatre in the archives of ABC Television and Channel Nine. At a time when Australian theatre practitioners are gaining worldwide recognition, this project will assist scholars to analyse Australian theatre history with a focus on live performance and production. The project will result in a detailed database/directory of material showing Australian live theatre on film and video, as well as two dissertations providing an in-depth scholarly description and cultural analysis of that material. not currently web-accessible, or web address unknown |
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OUTSTANDING CLOSELY RELATED INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS |
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Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) |
The Arts and Humanities Data Service is a UK national service funded by the JISC and AHRB to collect, preserve and promote the electronic resources that result from research and teaching in the arts and humanities. By preserving collections made in the arts and the humanities, the AHDS encourages research and educational use of its collections and makes information about them available through online catalogues. |
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Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) Digital Library |
The AACE Digital Library is an online resource of peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and proceedings papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning. |
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British Pathe News Archive |
A digital news archive with items from the entire 3500 hour British Pathe Film Archive, covering news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970. |
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CineMedia (US) |
Based at the American Film Institute, this database covers: film, video, television and new media. Claims to be the Internet's largest film & media directory. |
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Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archive Network (DELAMAN) |
A number of initiatives have been established recently with the goal of documenting and archiving endangered languages and cultures worldwide. DELAMAN has been set up to form an international network of archives that will stimulate intensive interaction about practical matters that result from the experiences of fieldworkers and archivists, and to act as an information clearinghouse. DELAMAN is intended as an open organisation where any initiative actively contributing to documentation and archiving of endangered languages and musics can participate. We welcome collaboration with other initiatives as appropriate. |
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Documentation of Endangered Languages |
Approximately 6500 languages are currently spoken world-wide. It can be assumed that around two-thirds of these languages will become extinct in the 21st century. All languages are intimately interlinked with the culture of their speakers, and all languages and cultures represent specific expressions of human thought and social organisation. Therefore, with every language that becomes extinct priceless intellectual values will be lost forever. The project DOBES will contribute to the conservation of this cultural heritage. |
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Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative |
The ECAI digital atlas is a globally federated collection of hundreds of networked digital projects created by libraries, museums and archives, and by scholars in history, the humanities and the social sciences. They are linked together through a metadata clearinghouse and visualized on a GIS viewer. |
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Encyclopedia of New Zealand Project |
This online Encyclopedia is a comprehensive guide to the natural environment, history, culture, economics, institutions, people and social development of New Zealand. Commencing publication in 2004. |
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Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project (HRELP) |
HRELP has been established to play a principal role in the study, documentation and archiving of endangered languages worldwide and encourages and funds research and fieldwork on a major scale. It is determined to provide practical support and encouragement to maintain and help defend cultural and linguistic diversity and fully supports collaborative projects involving endangered language communities. To this end it works closely with major universities and research institutes worldwide and fully supports collaborative academic projects. |
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Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) |
OLAC is an international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources by: (i) developing consensus on best current practice for the digital archiving of language resources, and (ii) developing a network of interoperating repositories and services for housing and accessing such resources. |
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World Wide Web Consortium |
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding. |
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