Cultural Object

Encyclopedia of Australian Science (2010 - 2019)

From
2010
Australia
To
2019
Functions
Data Registry and History and Philosophy of Science
Alternative Names
  • EOAS (Acronym)
Website
http://www.eoas.info
Legal Status
Except where otherwise stated, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Australia License.
Location
2010 to 2019 eScholarship Research Centre Level 2, Thomas Cherry Building The University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC 3010

Summary

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science was an online register of people, corporations, research institutions, scientific societies and other organisations that have contributed to Australia's scientific, technological and medical heritage. It was published from 2010 to 2019.

It incorporated the following data on people and organisations: name; alternative names; date and place of birth and death if known; occupations or fields of specialisation; a summary note outlining their life and work; a timeline of career positions or events; a list of other registered people, organisations and archival holdings and published resources they are connected to.

The registry was managed by the eScholarship Research Centre at the University of Melbourne. The registry was formed in February 2010 with the amalgamation of two previously separate databases, Bright Sparcs (1994-2010) and Australian Science at Work (1999-2010). In 2022 it was rebranded as the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation and published by the Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology.

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Timeline

 1994 - 2010 Bright Sparcs
 1999 - 2010 Australian Science at Work
       2010 - 2019 Encyclopedia of Australian Science

Published resources

Edited Books

  • McCarthy, Gavan ed., Guide to the Archives of Science in Australia: Records of Individuals (Melbourne: D.W.Thorpe, 1991), 302 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Maroske, Sara, Robin, Libby and McCarthy, Gavan, 'Building the history of Australian science: five projects of Professor R. W. Home (1980 - present)', Historical Records of Australian Science, 28 (1) (2017), 1-11, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR16018. Details

Resources

Rebecca Rigby

Created: 16 September 2011, Last modified: 6 June 2025

EOAS ID: biogs/P004855b.htm

This Edition: 2026 February - 1926 Centenaries
Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar - Late summer: late January to late March - season of eels
Reference: https://www.bom.gov.au/resources/indigenous-weather-knowledge/indigenous-seasonal-calendars/gariwerd-calendar#bom-anchor-list__item-kooyang-season-of-eels

Publisher: Swinburne University of Technology.

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004855b.htm

For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260