About

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation is a register of the people and the many industries, corporations, research institutions, scientific societies, awards,malor events and other organisations that have contributed to Australia's scientific, technological, engineering and medical heritage. Each entry has references to their archival materials and a bibliography of their historical published literature.

Explore the role these people and organisations have played in transforming science into processes, objects, buildings, and products that influence our lives and contribute to the development of our nation. Find out where they worked, who they worked with, what they worked on and what they achieved.

Many people have contributed to the development of The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, as a public knowledge web resource, through its predecessors Bright Sparcs, Australian Science at Work and The Encyclopedia of Australian Science. Information about these people can be found on our acknowledgement page. The story of its development can be found on our background page.

Data research and curation began in 1985 and resulted in a series of print and web publications from 1991, including:

Gavan McCarthy (ed), Guide to the Archives of Science in Australia: Records of Individuals [book] (Melbourne: D. W. Thorpe, 1991)
Bright Sparcs, [web resource] (Canberra and Melbourne: Australian Science Archives Project, 1994-1999; Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 1999-2006; eScholarship Research Centre, the University of Melbourne 2007-2010)
Australian Science at Work, [web resource] Canberra and Melbourne: Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 1999-2006; eScholarship Research Centre, the University of Melbourne (2007-2010)
Encyclopedia of Australian Science, [web resource] Melbourne: eScholarship Research Centre, the University of Melbourne, 2010-2019)

If you have information you would like to contribute to The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, please email Associate Professor Gavan McCarthy at the Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology: 'gavanmccarthy' @ 'swin.edu.au'

Browse exhibitions originally created to accompany Bright Sparcs and Australian Science at Work from 1996 onwards.

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This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

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/about.html

"... The Dreaming is many things in one. Among them, a kind of narrative of things that once happened; a kind of charter of things that still happen ..." W.E.H. Stanner (2009) The dreaming and other essays (p57)