When: 15 May 2025 10:30am
Where: Zoom
Who: Ken McInnes, speaker
How: GSV members can register to attend at www.gsv.org.au/events
The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation EOAS is a register of the people, industries, corporations, research institutions, scientific societies, awards, major events and organisations that have contributed to Australia's scientific, technological, engineering and medical heritage. Each entry has references to related archival materials, museum objects and collections, and to bibliographic resources, including historical and current literature.
Exploring the Encyclopedia, you can discover the role people and organisations have played in transforming science into processes, objects, buildings, and products that have influenced our lives and have contributed to the development of our nation. You can find out about where these people worked, who they worked with, what they worked on and what they achieved.
The Encyclopedia currently includes about 95% of the key people and organisations involved in science since colonisation. It is open-ended, it is continuously evolving as new information is added and gaps are filled, and it is published online as a revised consolidated edition on a quarterly basis.
This presentation will explain how the Encyclopedia has evolved since 1985; how it can provide a context for family history research; how 'behind-the-scenes' indexing and digitisation is helping our research; how family history research skills and knowledge have helped refine and expand the Encyclopedia; and how you can use it and help improve it.
The speaker:
Ken McInnes has been researching family history and engineering history and heritage for five decades and has served on many related statutory, professional and community organisations including: VicGUM; Historic Buildings Council of Victoria; Engineering Heritage Victoria (past chair); Engineering Heritage Australia (past chair); and National Trust Bridges Committees.
His professional career as a civil, environmental and computer software engineer included senior roles in major consulting engineering practices, state Public Works Agencies, and at University convening and lecturing subjects on internet and web technologies. Now retired, he is an Adjunct Research Fellow, at Swinburne University of Technology, focussed on researching and adding biographies of engineers, their related organisations and works into the “Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation”.
Thank you for drawing our attention to this database, it looks very interesting and I have forwarded it's details on to several of my non-genealogical friends.