From Digital Archives and Pacific Cultures: "Welcome to Digital Archives and Pacific Cultures. We are a team of faculty and students at the University of Pittsburgh engaged in an ongoing project to investigate the voyage narratives of eighteenth-century European expeditions to the Pacific, together with the English poetry and print media that responded to newly available accounts of first contact with Polynesian cultures. We are making early and rare texts on Pacific encounters openly available for study, together with graphical visualizations and experiments with digital text analysis."