National Centre for Australian Studies multimedia projects
Monash Dictionary of Biography Online
The Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia is made up of entries for more than 2000 Australians who have made a lasting and significant contribution to Australian culture. Monash University will develop and publish an on-line version of the Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia.
Understanding Australia
NCAS-ABC co-production, Understanding Australia, is a significant resource for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Australian society. It has been translated into three languages - Indonesian, Hindi and Mandarin.
Compara-US-Scenes
An innovative NCAS project that won a Monash Faculty of Arts Teaching Initiative Fund Grant in 2004. Compara-US-Scenes is a multi-modal learning interface for Australian American comparative studies. View archived site.
Australian Places
The Australian Places project documents the statistics and facilities on offer for 6,000 Australian cities, towns and suburbs. Listings include excerpts from historical gazetteer entries, historical and current visual material and virtual tours of selected locations. This is the only project of this magnitude ever created in Australia. This project is a flagship for Australian culture and identity for the national and international community. Further developments of the project will focus on the expanding of the existing research information to include more Australian towns and cities, making this information available to a larger and more diverse student, community and business population.
Previous projects
The Good Citizen: Australian Democracy and Citizenship
Money, Markets and the Economy
In the Pipeline
Emerge Copyright Resource Centre Project
- The Copyright Resource Centre of Australia website was a collaborative project between NCAS, DEETYA and EMERGE.
Argo: Australian Readers Guide Online
- ARGO was developed as a database of over 1400 annotations and bibliographical details of major Australian books.
Federation and Beyond: What makes Australians Australian
- This project was a collaboration between NCAS and the Australian Multicultural Foundation, with generous funding from the Centenary of Federation.
Federation Images
- NCAS with funding from Open Learning Australia developed a collection of black and white photographs, cartoons and newspaper excepts, from the Federation period in Australia.
Mediality
- This project explored ways of capitalising on the capacities of interactive multimedia to enrich and extend social, cultural and historical analyses and understandings.
Australian Timescopes
- This project, developed by Dr David Crean, explored a history of industrial Australia through images and contained an extensive array of media images and footage of key events in Australian history.
Lie of the Land
- A travelling exhibition of Australian popular and commercial imagery, and objects co-curated by NCAS and the Powerhouse Museum Sydney and accompanied by a colour catalogue.
Australians and the Monarchy
- An exhibition of royal imagery, and objects curated by NCAS and accompanied by a book.