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South Seas Project: Voyaging and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Pacific (1760-1800)

Posted by arts-humanities.net on March 29, 2015

South Seas is an online information resource for the history of European voyaging and cross-cultural encounters in the Pacific between 1760 and 1800. The first phase is focused on James Cook’s momentous first voyage of discovery of 1768-1771. South Seas offers the full text of the holograph manuscript of James Cook’s Endeavour Journal held by the National Library of Australia, together with the full texts of the journals kept by Joseph Banks and Sydney Parkinson on the voyage.

Academic field
History
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PARADISEC

Posted by Nick Thieberger on February 26, 2015

PARADISEC (the Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures) offers a facility for digital conservation and access for endangered materials from the Pacific region, defined broadly to include Oceania and East and Southeast Asia. Our research group has developed models to ensure that the archive can provide access to interested communities, and conforms with emerging international standards for digital archiving. We have established a framework for accessioning, cataloguing and digitising audio, text and visual material, and preserving digital copies.

Academic field
Modern Languages, Librarianship, Information & Museum Studies, Linguistics, Music