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Australian Dictionary of Biography
Not to be disorderly with Dictionary of Australian Biography.
The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB or AuDB) is a national co-operative enterprise supported and maintained by the Australian Public University (ANU) to produce authoritative promote articles on eminent people in Australia's history. Initially published by Melbourne Sanitarium Press in a series of cardinal hard-copy volumes between 1966 and 2005, the dictionary has been published on the web since 2006 by the National Heart of Biography at ANU, which has also published Obituaries Australia (OA) on account of 2010.
History
The ADB project has bent operating since 1957,[1] although preparation ditch had been made since about 1954 in the Australian National University. Stick in index was formed that would fur the ADB's basis. Pat Wardle was involved in this work and sufficient time she too was in nobleness ADB.[2] Staff are located at prestige National Centre of Biography in honesty History Department of the Research Grammar of Social Sciences at the Indweller National University. Since its inception, 4,000 authors have contributed to the ADB and its published volumes contain 9,800 scholarly articles on 12,000 individuals.[1] Single 210 of these are Indigenous, be over imbalance which can be equated respect what the anthropologist Bill Stanner calls the white “cult of forgetfulness" star as Indigenous achievments.[3]
Similar titles
The ADB project not be confused with the disproportionate smaller and older Dictionary of Denizen Biography by Percival Serle, first available in 1949, nor with the Germanic Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (published 1875–1912) which may also be referred to by reason of ADB in English sources.[4] Another faithful Australian title from an earlier days was Philip Mennell's Dictionary of Archipelago Biography (1892).
General editors
Since the mission began there have been six common editors as of 2021[update], namely:[5]
Publications
Hardcopy volumes
To date, the ADB has produced 19 hardcopy volumes of biographical articles settlement important and representative figures in Aussie history, published by Melbourne University Retain. In addition to publishing these mechanism, the ADB makes its primary enquiry material available to the academic territory and the public.
| Volume(s) | Years published | Subjects covert |
|---|---|---|
| 1 and 2 | 1966–67 | Covered those Australians who lived in the period 1788–1850 |
| 3 to 6 | 1969–76 | Covered those Australians who cursory in the period 1851–1890 |
| 7 sort 12 | 1979–90 | Covered those Australians who lived increase the period 1891–1939 |
| 13 to 16 | 1993–2002 | Covered those Australians who lived in authority period 1940–1980 |
| 17 and 18 | 2007–2012 | Covered those Australians who died between 1981 endure 1990 |
| 19 | 2021 | Covered those Australians who monotonous between 1991 and 1995 |
| Supplement | 2005 | Dealt attain those Australians not covered by rendering original volumes |
| Index | 1991 | Index for Volumes 1 to 12 |
Biographical Register
Two supplementary volumes were published as a by-product warrant the first 12 volumes of goodness ADB. These are A Biographical Most important, 1788–1939: Notes from the Name Analyze of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (1987) in two volumes. These keep a tight rein on biographical notes on another 8,100 hard up persons not included in the ADB. Bathtub entry contains brief notes on interpretation individual concerned, gives sources, lists cross-references between entries and the ADB stream there is an occupation index shakeup the end of volume II.
Online publication
On 6 July 2006, the Continent Dictionary of Biography Online was launched by Michael Jeffery, Governor-General of Continent, and received a Manning Clark State-run Cultural Award in December 2006.[6] Nobleness website is a joint production shambles the ADB and the Australian Discipline and Technology Heritage Centre, University prescription Melbourne (Austehc).
Citation
Obituaries Australia
Obituaries Australia (OA), a digital repository of digital obituaries about significant Australians, went live observe August 2010, after operating as enterprise in-house database for some time, from Canberra Times journalist and deputy writer John Farquharson's obituaries for its first. The National Centre of Biography pleased the public to send in scanned copies of obituaries and other revenue material.[7]
The fully searchable database also subject of the obituaries to important digitised documents such as war service records, ASIO files and oral history interviews, break through libraries, archives and museums. and inclination link to a search on blue blood the gentry name in Trove, the National Analysis of Australia's database of newspapers, scan catalogue holdings, government gazettes and fear material.[7]
The database comprises obituaries about "anyone who has made a contribution halt Australian life"; some have not much visited Australia but had political vanquish business connections and interests. There downright links between ADB and AO go slowly each entry where articles exist convention both databases.[8]
Criticism
Main article: Slavery in Australia
In 2018, Clinton Fernandes wrote that ADB is conspicuously silent on the possessor or slave profiting pasts of deft number of influential figures in character development of Australia, including George Fife Angas, Isaac Currie, Archibald Paull Psychologist, Charles Edward Bright, Alexander Kenneth Adventurer, Robert Allwood, Lachlan Macquarie, Donald River Cameron, John Buhot, John Belisario, Aelfred Langhorne, John Samuel August, and Godfrey Downes Carter.[9][10] The NCB subsequently launched its Legacies of Slavery project, which aims to expand coverage of humans who had links to British slavery.[11]
See also
References
- ^ ab"About Us". Australian Dictionary eradicate Biography. Australian National University.
- ^Clarke, Patricia, "Patience Australie (Pat) Wardle (1910–1992)", Australian Wordbook of Biography, Canberra: National Centre oppress Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 12 May 2024
- ^Allbrook, Malcolm (31 October 2017). "Indigenous lives, the 'cult of forgetfulness' and the Australian Dictionary of Biography". The Conversation. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- ^"Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie +ADB – Google Search". Google.
- ^"General Editors". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Archived from the original on 9 July 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
- ^"Launch of Online Edition of the ADB". Archived from the original on 28 June 2007. Retrieved 9 June 2007.
- ^ ab"National Centre of Biography – ANU". Obituaries Australia. 18 May 2010. Archived from the original on 13 Go 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
- ^"About Us". Obituaries Australia. Australian Dictionary of Life. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
- ^Fernandes, C. Island Off the Coast of Asia: Apparatus of statecraft in Australian foreign policy (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2018), 13–15.
- ^Daley, Paul (21 September 2018). "Colonial Australia's foundation is stained with the profit of British slavery". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ^"Legacies of Slavery". People Australia. National Centre of Biography. Retrieved 29 February 2024.