National Library of Australia


South Seas project

Formerly the Endeavour project

Project participants: Centre for Cross-Cultural Research (an Australian Research Council Special Research Centre) with the National Library of Australia.
Contact officer/s: Dr Vanessa Agnew; Dr Judith Pearce (email jpearce@nla.gov.au; phone 02 6262 1425), Pam Gatenby (email pgatenby@nla.gov.au; phone 02 6262 ), Colin Webb (email cwebb@nla.gov.au; phone 02 6262 1662).
Project description: Creating and implementing scholarly standards for the preparation and publication of historical editions in digital form. This project extends collaborations between the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research and the National Library of Australia. It has two aims. Firstly, it exploits the potential of digital hypermedia as research medium to open new lines of research into James Cook's and Samuel Wallis' Pacific voyages (1766-1771), and how the resulting encounters with Indigenous Australian and Oceanic peoples influenced European intellectual and cultural history. Secondly, the outcomes of these new directions in research will be used to develop scholarly editing standards for digital historical editions, and a networked environment facilitating their national implementation. Product will be hypermedia edition of the journals of Cook's Endeavour voyage (1769-1771). The edition will offer annotations, critical commentaries and essays in a range of media re-appraising the cross-cultural encounters which occurred during the course of the voyage.
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URL for project information: http://southseas.nla.gov.au
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Timetable: To be completed by 31 December 2002
Budget and funding: Strategic partnerships with industry - research and training (SPIRT) scheme grant over three years of $A338,441.
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Last modified: September 30 2004.