8-9 July 2004
On the 8-9 July 2004, participants in a joint Computing Arts/Australian Historical Association conference track on digital encyclopedias decided to continue their discussions. This marked the beginning of the Australia New Zealand Digital Encyclopedia Group (ANZDEG).
8 July 2004
- 9.30 am
- Te Ara: the Online Encyclopedia of New Zealand (Plenery session). Jock Phillips, Te Ara, Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
- 11.00 am
- Morning tea.
- 11.30 am
- Challenges for online digital cultural atlases. Ian Johnson, Archaeological Computing Laboratory & TimeMap Project, University of Sydney.
- 12.00 pm
- Encyclopedic knowledges -- past, present and future. Jenny Gregory, Centre for Western Australian History; University of Western Australia Press.
- 12.30 pm
- The Australian Dictionary of Biography online: the foundation of an online Encyclopedia of Australia. Gavan McCarthy, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre (Austehc), University of Melbourne.
- 1.00 pm
- Lunch.
- 2.00 pm
- Lesser-known-worlds: designing cultural experiences for reengagement in cultural sites. Debra Polson, The Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID), Queensland University of Technology.
- 2.30 pm
- Three distributed encyclopaedias. Jonathan O'Donnell.
- 3.00 pm
- Afternoon tea.
- 3.30 pm
- Interactive History. Paul Arthur, Murdoch University.
- 4.00 pm
- Melbourne on-line: history and the networked city. Andy Brown-May, University of Melbourne.
- 4.30 pm
- The Cobb & Co. Coach dilemma:Photographs and Chinese Australian history in the networked environment. Sophie Couchman, La Trobe University.
- 5.00 pm
- The Australian Women's Archives Project: Locating women in Australian archival repositories. Nikki Henningham, University of Melbourne.
- 7:00 pm
- Dinner.
9 July 2004
- 11.45 am
- The Wikipedia. Sam Russell (presented by his father, Keith).
- 12.15 pm
- The digitisation and adaptation of a print encyclopedia. Ross Somerville, Te Ara the Encyclopedia of New Zealand and Elizabeth Styron, New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (NZETC).
- 12.45 pm
- Integrating access to cultural heritage collections: the Western Australian Cultural Heritage Portal. Toby Burrows, Scholars' Centre, University of Western Australia Library.
- 1.15 pm
- Lunch.
- 2.00 pm
- The global/local case of Writing Macao. Kit Kelen, University of Macao.
- 2.30 pm
- South Seas: working with Historical Complexity in the Networked Environment. Paul Turnbull, History and Historical Informatics, James Cook University.
- 3.00 pm
- The AustLit Gateway and the digital knowledge economy. Kerry Kilner, Australian Studies Centre, University of Queensland.
