08 Jul 2003

Asian Studies Online - a Timeline of Major Developments
Internet Publications Bureau, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "This section of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) tracks the history of Asian Studies' computer and online resources. The page offers an chronological list [currently over 320 items - ed.] documenting the earliest Asian Studies' experiments with computerised files and networking, the pioneering online publications, as well as subsequent key transformations and developments. Information about the Asian Studies' online projects is placed within the context of major developments in the world of computers, networks and telecommunications since the early 1970s till the present day. ... Please mail tmciolek[use"@"]coombs.anu.edu.au if you know details (e.g. the date of establishment, names of the editors, scope of the resource etc.) of additional pioneering, influential, most useful, etc. online Asian Studies facilities. I am interested in all types of resources regardless of whether they are currently active or not. I am especially interested in data dealing with the early (i.e. pre-WWW) developments; and with online materials from countries other than the US or Australia, and/or in languages other than English. Your factual input is warmly invited, and your addenda and/or corrections will be fully acknowledged."
Site contents: 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980; 1981; 1982; 1983; 1984; 1985; 1986; 1987; 1988; 1989; 1990; 1991; 1992; 1993; 1994; 1995; 1996; 1997; 1998; 1999; 2000; 2001; 2002; 2003; References; Acknowledgments.
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asian-studies-timeline.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek[use"@"]coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30