The Endeavour Project is a collaborative venture in digital publishing being undertaken by the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research of the Australian National University and the National Library of Australia. Other major partners include the State Library of New South Wales and the Can-berra Art School. The project has two interrelated major goals. Firstly, it employs web-based hypermedia to pursue new lines of research into James Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768-71), focusing in particular on how the records of Cook's encounters with Indigenous Australian and Oceanic peoples have influenced European intellec-tual and cultural history. Secondly, the outcomes of this research are being used to develop editing standards for the preparation and delivery of historical documents in digital forms