Estudios de dialectologÃa Norteafricana y Andalusà (EDNA)
The academic journal for 'North African and Andalusian Dialectological Studies' (EDNA) is a publication from the Spanish 'Institute of Islamic and Near Eastern Studies'. The journal is devoted to the study of the Arabic language in the Western regions of Maghreb and Alandalús, thus combining studies on contemporary and historical issues of Arabic dialects in these regions. Available on the site is the full-text content for all issues published between 1996 and 2004. Although Spanish is the main
National park service archeology program
This website provides access to the archaeology and ethnography program of the U.S. National Park service. It is a portal to the many projects across America and American legislation on archaeological matters. The projects are accessible via a map or textual hyperlinks from the "sites and collections" section. A special section of the site examines the Antiquities Act. The section entitled "peoples and cultures" presents instead all the ethnographic projects. Another special section worth lookin
Institute for Archaeo-Metallurgical Studies
The website of the Institute of Archaeo-Metallurgical Studies (IAMS), an international research body which since 1973 has promoted the study of the origins and developments of metallurgy within its cultural and historical context from the earliest period to recent times. The website sketches the background to previous research in ancient metallurgy and provides a useful chronicle of IAMS-sponsored projects in major metal producing areas of the ancient world, including the Sinai, the Negev (parti
Julia Morgan : an online exhibition
This online exhibition highlights the work of American architect Julia Morgan, who in 1904 became the first woman licensed to practice architecture in California. Taken from the archive papers at the Robert E. Kennedy Library, California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), the website provides scope notes for the collection and related collections. The online exhibition covers Morgan's biography; education; early work; Morgan's design of William Randolph Hearst's estate in San Simeon, Calif
Civic society initiative
This is the website of the Civic Society Initiative an umbrella organisation uniting local civic societies around the UK. These societies are typically concerned with the architectural environment and built heritage of individual towns and take an active campaigning role. The Civic Society Initiative steps into the void left when the national Civic Trust folded and aims to support local groups and give a national voice to the movement. The site showcase the broad range of activities across the c
Drawing out meaning : 500 years of architectural history
'Drawing out Meaning: 500 years of architectural history' is an online resource that is part of RIBA's website. It presents a workshop that is based on a seminar first delivered to the Manchester School of Architecture. The workshop provides 19 examples, dating from the 16th to the 20th centuries, that illustrate the nature of drawing as a tool for the architect to communicate his ideas. The notes and images are accessed via the names of the architects, which include Palladio, Inigo Jones, Nicho
Snøhetta - works : annual architecture lecture 2009
The website for the Royal Academy of Arts has provided this podcast of the 2009 annual architecture lecture by Craig Dykers and Kjetil Thorsen, co-founders of the Norwegian architectural practice Snøhetta. This lecture 'Snøhetta - Works' is available as an MP3 file, and this website also offers a selection of the images and video that accompanied the lecture. This international architecture, landscape architecture and interior design practice is based in Oslo, Norway and New York City, and a
Cyberfibres
This website, entitled Cyberfibres, is a searchable online database of Australian fashion and textile design created by a team led by Kaye Ashton for the Frances Burke Textile Resource Centre and the RMIT University School of Fashion and Textiles in Melbourne Australia. The website contains a brief history of the Cyberfibres project, its content, origins and how to use it. The database can be searched by keyword, by a structured search facility including Date and Role functions, or can be browse
Transforming cultures ejournal
'Transforming Cultures' is peer-reviewed full-text ejournal. It is published by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney. At January 2009 there are six issues online, offering articles in PDF format. The journal contains scholary articles, interviews, opinion, and book reviews, within a focus on research on... "narratives of the local in Australia, and in the regions of the Pacific and Indian Oceans". Issues have themes, such as: 'Cultural Currents
Limina : a journal of historical and cultural studies
'Limina: a journal of historical and cultural studies' is a full-text ejournal. This refereed annual ejournal is published by a cross-disciplinary group of postgraduates at The University of Western Australia. At February 2009 there are 16 issues online, freely offering articles in PDF format. There is also a special edition from 2007, titled 'On The Beach: Liminal Spaces in Historical and Cultural Contexts'. Example article titles from the archives include: 'Subcinema: Theorising Marginal Fil
Bill Palmer home page
Bill Palmer is a member of the Surrey Morphology Group and is currently working on an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded research project concerning the use of possessive morphology to index subject on verbs in languages of the Northwest Solomonic branch of Oceanic (Austronesian). His homepage contains links to published and draft papers; a bibliography with links to some dictionaries of various languages; his PhD-thesis and masters thesis; and information about his field researc
National library of Australia : digital collections
This is the Web portal for the online digital collections offered by The National Library of Australia. Collections include... "pictures, rare historical maps, early Australian printed music, manuscripts belonging to famous Australians, selected printed works from our Australian and overseas collections, and selected audio recordings". The website offers simple navigation of the collections by media type, or by a keyword search engine. At May 2009 the website offers open access to: 1,700 books,
emaj : electronic Melbourne art journal
'emaj: electronic Melbourne art journal' is a full-text refereed ejournal published from the University of Melbourne, featuring scholarly articles on art history in Australia and beyond. At June 2009 there are three issues online, with articles freely available for download in PDF format. Example article titles include: 'Wolfgang Sievers and the revisionism of Australian migrant art'; 'Changing museum environments: global articulations of the 'Video Text' (1968–1990)'; and 'The guitar, the muse
United Islands? multi-lingual radical poetry and folk song in Britain and Ireland, 1770-1820
This website describes an AHRC-funded research network, bringing together scholars with collectors and performers of folksong and poetry, to “discuss the fate of non-canonical poetry/folksong in the period 1770-1820”. This radical and anti-establishment poetry has long been overlooked, and the opportunity has only recently arisen to discuss it from an intra-national perspective (with the history of the British Isles seen as a complex and contradictory “zone of cultural conflict
Language, religion and print culture in the Welsh diaspora
This short Web page introduces an AHRC-funded research network concerned “the ways in which Welsh identity was preserved and adapted” by the Welsh diaspora in North and South America. Bringing together scholars with backgrounds in Welsh literature, linguistics, history, religion and Welsh identities the group held four meetings in Bangor between 2006-2007, brief details of which are provided.
Early cinema and the diasporic imagination : the Irish in America 1890-1930
This PDF document briefly summarises an AHRC-funded research network into “the role and representation of Irish immigrants within US cinema”, drawing new ideas of the role of audience taste on the shaping of early cinema and “the contradictory dynamic between ethnic assertion and cultural assimilation faced by the immigrant communities within the US”. The network was conceived as very much a multinational one, with academics from the UK, US and Ireland contributing, and w
Modelling, interpretation and alternate representations : visualization technology, heritage buildin
This is the website for an AHRC-funded research cluster aiming to apply visualization techniques to heritage sites under threat from coastal erosion and buildings in Wales and Ireland. It brings together computer scientists, archaeologists and heritage managers and organisations including the National Museums of Wales and Ireland, the National Trust and English Heritage. In doing so, through as series of workshops (details available), it will allow the application of computer modelling technolo
BWELT.net : bibliography of Welsh literature in English translation
BWLET.net is a website offering a free database of Welsh literature in English translation. BWLET claims to be "first comprehensive listing of Welsh-English literary translation from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to the present day". The database is searchable by: keyword; author; title; publisher; and date. Each entry gives bibliographic information about each translation, enabling students and researchers working on Welsh literature to more easily find relevant works. The websit
Program in Aegean scripts and prehistory
The Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP) website presents the work of a research centre at the University of Texas. There are news presented in the form of a blog; reports of activities; editorials and articles by staff members; the Studies in Mycenaean Inscriptions and Dialect (SMID) online database; The PASP database for the use of scripts on Cyprus; the Alice Kober, Michael Ventris and Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. archive (finding aids only available online, but a full digitisation progr
Revista de lengua y literatura catalana, gallega y vasca
The "Revista de Lengua y Literatura Catalana, Gallega y Vasca" (Journal of Catalan, Galician, and Basque Language and Literature) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal by the Spanish Open University (UNED). It was first published in 1991 with the aim of bringing together comparative philological studies on Hispanic literatures. At the time of cataloguing, it was available the full-text content for the 13 issues published between 1991 and 2008. Each number includes research articles, book reviews,
