Cirrus@Austlit

Digital Humanities

AustLit is positioned at the forefront of a developing Digital Humanities culture. While maintaining a reputation as a world-class information resource, AustLit is expanding its role as a research environment by providing for greater interactivity with and between communities of researchers, teachers, students, and the wider public.

AustLit remains pro-actively engaged with innovative applications of technologies in information management and knowledge creation, as evidenced by its involvement in projects like the Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI) Project and the development of a range of tools and services for researchers.

Kerry Kilner drives AustLit's inclusion in the emerging discipline of Digital Humanities (k.kilner at uq.edu.au). Feel free to email her about plans, projects and activities.

New Look, New Functionality

AustLit unveiled a new ‘look’ in May 2013. This new look was not simply cosmetic: it was a major restructure and refactoring of the AustLit database and interface that is a part of a major change in the way AustLit operates. We aim to become more open, accessible, and available to anyone with an interest in Australian literary culture.

Future developments include the creation of a membership platform to facilitate participation. Members of the AustLit communiity will be able to map their own library collections, offer enhancements to available information, upload photographs of authors, book covers, theatre programs, and other relevant historical content, or begin discussions on, for example, texts, literary movements, teaching successes, festivals, or reading groups.

If you would like to participate in building AustLit's content, please contact us.

We will continue to ensure that AustLit is updated with details of new publications, and record details of events that are of interest to our users.