The Dictionary of Sydney is a
digital humanities project to produce an online, expert-written encyclopedia of all aspects of the
history of Sydney.
Description
The Dictionary is a partnership between the
City of Sydney, the
University of Sydney, the
State Library of New South Wales
The State Library of New South Wales, part of which is known as the Mitchell Library, is a large heritage-listed special collections, reference and research library open to the public and is one of the oldest libraries in Australia. Establish ...
, the
State Records Authority of New South Wales, and the
University of Technology Sydney. It began in 2007 with
Australian Research Council
The Australian Research Council (ARC) is the primary non-medical research funding agency of the Australian Government, distributing more than in grants each year. The Council was established by the ''Australian Research Council Act 2001'', ...
funding and launched on 5 November 2009.
Geographically, the Dictionary of Sydney includes the whole
Sydney basin
The Sydney Basin is an interim Australian bioregion and is both a structural entity and a depositional area, now preserved on the east coast of New South Wales, Australia and with some of its eastern side now subsided beneath the Tasman Sea. ...
and chronologically spans the years from the earliest human habitation to the present. It also invites historical contributions from disciplines such as archaeology, sociology, literary studies, historical geography and cultural studies.
Heurist
Heurist is an Open Source online database builder and CMS publisher designed for Humanities research data and collections, including data on people, organisations, places, events, artefacts, documents, media, bibliographic records, contemporary s ...
, developed by the
University of Sydney was the underlying technology for the project. The Dictionary of Sydney won an Energy Australia National Trust Heritage Award for Interpretation and Presentation in April 2010.
The site now resides at the State Library of New South Wales on the platform Drupal.
The Dictionary was archived in 2021.
Contributors
Contributions are sourced from dozens of academics, writers and researchers. Notable contributors include
Keith Vincent Smith, with 15 entries, including entries on
Bennelong and
Pemulwuy.
References
External links
Dictionary of Sydney websiteacademic journal
and blo
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Australian online encyclopedias
Social history of Australia
Culture of Sydney
Mass media in Sydney