The Endeavour Project: Exploring Cross-Cultural History in Hypermedia
Author(s)
Turnbull, Paul Gregory
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2000
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The Endeavour Project is a collaborative venture in digital publishing being undertaken by the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research of the Australian National University and the National Library of Australia. Other major partners include the State Library of New South Wales and the Can-berra Art School. The project has two interrelated major goals. Firstly, it employs web-based hypermedia to pursue new lines of research into James Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768-71), focusing in particular on how the records of Cook's encounters with Indigenous Australian and Oceanic peoples have influenced European intellec-tual and cultural ...
View more >The Endeavour Project is a collaborative venture in digital publishing being undertaken by the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research of the Australian National University and the National Library of Australia. Other major partners include the State Library of New South Wales and the Can-berra Art School. The project has two interrelated major goals. Firstly, it employs web-based hypermedia to pursue new lines of research into James Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768-71), focusing in particular on how the records of Cook's encounters with Indigenous Australian and Oceanic peoples have influenced European intellec-tual and cultural history. Secondly, the outcomes of this research are being used to develop editing standards for the preparation and delivery of historical documents in digital forms
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View more >The Endeavour Project is a collaborative venture in digital publishing being undertaken by the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research of the Australian National University and the National Library of Australia. Other major partners include the State Library of New South Wales and the Can-berra Art School. The project has two interrelated major goals. Firstly, it employs web-based hypermedia to pursue new lines of research into James Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768-71), focusing in particular on how the records of Cook's encounters with Indigenous Australian and Oceanic peoples have influenced European intellec-tual and cultural history. Secondly, the outcomes of this research are being used to develop editing standards for the preparation and delivery of historical documents in digital forms
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Journal Title
LASIE: Library Automated Systems Information Exchange
Volume
31
Subject
PRE2009-History: Pacific