Registry

Bright Sparcs (1994 - 2010)

From
15 July 1994
To
25 February 2010
Functions
History and Philosophy of Science
Website
http://www.eoas.info/bib/ASBS01939.htm
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
eScholarship Research Centre Level 2, Thomas Cherry Building The University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC 3010

Summary

Bright Sparcs was an online register of people involved in the development of science, technology, engineering and medicine in Australia, including references to their archival materials and bibliographic resources.

The registry was first conceived and managed by the Australian Science Archives Project (1994-1999). It was subsequently managed by its successor organisations, the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre (1999-2006) and the eScholarship Research Centre (from 2007 onwards) at the University of Melbourne.

In February 2010, Bright Sparcs and the Australian Science at Work database were amalgamated to create the basis of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science.

When the register was established its parameters were to register the names and existing archival records of influential Australian scientists. As time progressed technological capacity increased and the potential for wider data parameters was realised. By the time of its closure the register included the following data on influential Australian scientists: name; alternate 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; a list of other registered people, organisations and archival holdings and published resources they are connected to.

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Timeline

 1994 - 2010 Bright Sparcs
       2010 - 2019 Encyclopedia of Australian Science

Published resources

Resources

Rebecca Rigby

Created: 21 September 2011, Last modified: 31 October 2011

EOAS ID: biogs/P004856b.htm

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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/P004856b.htm

"... 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