As
its contribution to the 500th Anniversary of The Encounter of Two
Worlds, Millersville University of Pennsylvania created and
installed The Computerized Information Retrieval System
(CIRS) on Columbus and the Age of Discovery in 1989. A joint
research project of the History Department and Academic Computing
Services, CIRS is a text retrieval system containing over 1100
text articles from magazines, journals, newspapers, speeches,
official calendars and other sources relating to various
encounter themes. Awarded the status of an "Official Project"
by the U.S. Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee Commission,
Spain 1992, and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
CIRS and its databases are freely available to you
through your Internet connection.
Discoverers: In this project I try
to gather all kinds of information found on the web about voyages
of discovery and exploration.