Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Researching engineers and engineering online ... a guide to digitised resources
- In
- Transactions of the 5th South Australian Engineering Heritage Conference, Adelaide, 13 May 2016
- Imprint
- Engineers Australia, South Australia Division, Adelaide, 2016, pp. 27-43
- Abstract
Archives, libraries and museums are continuing to create and make available an ever expanding range of indexes and digitised documents on-line through the Web. Not only is this making it easier to research engineers and their works, at anytime from anywhere, but it is also enabling searches across material that was not previously indexed, thus providing exciting new opportunities for research.
This is particularly relevant for researching engineers working in early Australasia, who often moved from colony to colony, from civil engineering to surveying, to architecture, to fine art, and back again, and then perhaps moved to the Americas, Asia, Africa or Europe.
This paper provides a guide for researchers to some of the current key local, national, and international on-line resources, illustrated with some interesting engineering related examples.
The paper also highlights the current progress of digitising Australian engineering publications prior to 1919, and sets out the task of completing the digitisation of the publications of the "Founding Societies" of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, prior to celebrating its centenary in 2019.
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- Transactions of the 5th South Australian Engineering Heritage Conference, Adelaide, 13 May 2016 edited by Venus, Richard (Adelaide: Engineers Australia, South Australia Division, 2016), 98 pp. Details