The Dictionary is a partnership between the
City of Sydney, the
University of Sydney, the
University of Technology Sydney, the
State Library of New South Wales and the
State Records Authority of New South Wales. It began in 2007 with
Australian Research Council funding and launched on 5 November 2009. Geographically, the Dictionary of Sydney includes the whole
Sydney basin and chronologically spans the years from the earliest human habitation to the present. It also invited historical contributions from disciplines such as archaeology, sociology, literary studies, historical geography and cultural studies.
Heurist, developed by the
University of Sydney was the underlying technology for the project. The Dictionary of Sydney won an Energy Australia National Trust Heritage Award for Interpretation and Presentation in April 2010. The site now resides at the State Library of New South Wales on the
Drupal platform. The Dictionary was archived in 2021. ==Contributors==