Time-Layered Cultural Map of Australia

This paper examines use of multi-media in the curation, presentation and promotion of rock art. It discusses the construction of a centralised Australian rock art database and explores new technologies available for looking at rock art. In 2011, Prof. Taçon Chair in Rock Art Research and Director of PERAHU (Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit) called for a national rock art database raising awareness of the importance of preserving rock art as part of Australia’s valuable Indigenous heritage (Taçon, 2011). Australia has over 100,000 rock art sites, important heritage places for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and a testament to over 10,000 years of human activity, including interactions with other peoples and the environment. Many of these sites have not been documented or recorded and are threatened by natural and cultural agents. It is becoming increasingly important to develop appropriate conservation models for the protection and preservation of sites. Indigenous cultural heritage is difficult to manage on a local government level due to complex human / time / environment relationships and the importance of intangible cultural heritage (SoE SEWPAC, 2011). Currently no centralised database system exists in Australia to curate, present and promote rock art.

Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities, 2017

What are the leading tools and archives in digital cultural heritage? How can they be integrated into research infrastructures to better serve their intended audiences? In this book, authors from a wide range of countries, representing some of the best research projects in digital humanities related to cultural heritage, discuss their latest findings, both in terms of new tools and archives, and how they are used (or not used) by both specialists and by the general public. [PAGE ONLY, TO READ GO TO ROUTLEDGE WEBSITE]

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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

As an invaluable source of knowledge about the past, cultural heritage may be an important element of the humanities research infrastructure, along with other elements, such as spatial references. Therefore, this paper attempts to provide an answer to the questions concerning the ways in which spatial information can contribute to the development of this infrastructure and the aspects of storytelling based on cultural resources that can be supported by such infrastructure. The objective of the methodology that was used was to combine the aspects that refer to spatial information and cultural items into a single, common issue, and to describe them in a formalized way with use of Unified Modeling Language (UML). As a result, the study presents a proposal of the Humanities Infrastructure Architecture based on spatially-oriented movable cultural items, taking into account their use in the context of interoperability, along with the concept of creating spatial databases that would include movable monuments. The authors also demonstrate that the ISO 19100 series of geographical information standards may be a source of interesting conceptual solutions that may be used in the process of the standardization of geographical information that was recorded in the descriptions of cultural heritage items in form of metadata and data structure descriptions.

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This paper provides an overview of the historical influences that are the subject of the time-mapping visualization of Taiwan, primarily from the perspective of how those influences affected the island’s aboriginal inhabitants. This narrative provides a basic background of Taiwan history to aid in an understanding of the mapping project itself, part of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative based at the University of California, Berkeley. It includes details related to the source of historical/geographical data and the digitization of that data for dynamic representation in order to better contextualize this representation. This project is primarily centred on the cultural resources and experience of Taiwan’s aboriginal groups, which today face contentious issues including language extinction, self-identification, access to cultural resources, the teaching of history in public education, and adapting to a multicultural identity, all of which are components of cultural resource man...

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Australian Archaeology, 2012

The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. 95 Number 75, December 2012 Articles Abstract The New South Wales Archaeology Online (NSW AOL) Project aims to enhance the research, professional and educational value of archaeological information by using digital technology. Stages 1 and 2 (2009-13) involve collaboration with the University of Sydney Library eScholarship Repository and archaeologists studying colonial historic places and archaeological sites in New South Wales. So far the project has collected and digitised over 1000 hard-copy reports produced mainly before the mid 1990s that document previously unpublished heritage consultancy projects and student research. This 'grey literature' is being archived and content made publicly accessible online. The first version of

ROSSIO Infrastructure: a digital research tool for Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, 2021

Silva, Gonçalo Melo da; Glória, Ana Celeste; Salgueiro, Ângela; Almeida, Bruno; Monteiro, Daniel; Freitas, Marco Roque de; FREIRE, NUNO. "ROSSIO Infrastructure: a digital research tool for Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities". In Proceedings of the ICTeSSH 2021 conference. https://doi.org/10.21428/7a45813f.579bb144

Journal of Archival Organization, 2008

This article examines the evolution of a national register of the archives of science and technology in Australia and the related development of an archival informatics focused initially on people and their relationships to archival materials. The register was created in 1985 as an in-house tool for the Australian Science Archives Project of the University of Melbourne. Its potential as a public reference guide for historians of science and technology soon became apparent. The story of the computerisation and publication of the register provides the background for the examination of the use of archival authority records as a means of finding better ways of connecting archives with their potential