Opening Archives
We’ve been working on archival systems and technologies for over 10 years, and have worked with a wide range of... Continue reading →
About Piers Higgs
Piers is the founder and Director of Gaia Resources, and has worked with the environmental industry for most of his career, and has a range of experience in GIS, ecology and data management.
Twenty Years
This year marks the 20th year of Gaia Resources. This year, you’re going to see a fair bit from us... Continue reading →
Wrapping Up 2023
We’ve just done our usual final team meeting of the year, wrapping up 2023 in our usual way by running... Continue reading →
Digital Preservation: building the Electric Dream together
For World Digital Preservation Day, we thought we’d talk about how you can build a Digital Preservation System (DPS) in... Continue reading →
TDWG 2023
Last week was the first TDWG conference I’ve been to since the Fremantle one in 2008, and I was really... Continue reading →
Happy New (financial) Year!
During the last month, we stumbled across a milestone – the first timesheet entry for Gaia Resources was made 19... Continue reading →
We’re recruiting!
We are deep in the process of recruitment again, and thought we’d take a moment to talk about what we’re... Continue reading →
Healthy Work Trips
In this post-COVID lockdown era, travel is starting again, and so we’ve started to look at how we deal with... Continue reading →
Biodiversity Data in Western Australia
We have been quietly involved in the Biodiversity Information Office (BIO) for some time (since 2020 https://archive.gaiaresources.com.au/biodiversity-initiatives-australia/ right through to... Continue reading →
A long journey to records management
When I was asked to present at the Records and Information Management Professionals Association (RIMPA) roadshow in Western Australia recently,... Continue reading →
How do you use your local parks?
For a number of years we have worked with Dr Paula Hooper and the team at the Australian Urban Design... Continue reading →
2022 in Review
2022 is about to come to an end and so it’s customary for us to do an end of the... Continue reading →
Here we are (again?)
Sarah and I got the opportunity to go to the Australian Society of Archives conference in Canberra last month, and... Continue reading →
The next generation of biodiversity information management in Western Australia
Back in July, the Minister for Environment and Climate Action, the Honourable Reece Whitby MLA, along with the Department of... Continue reading →
Team Week 2022
Recently, we had the opportunity to get together as a team for the first time since COVID hit… and then... Continue reading →
EOFY again
We’ve just ticked past the end of another financial year, and Gaia Resources is now 18! I have to say,... Continue reading →
The responsible use of data standards in biodiversity data
In the 18 years since our inception, we’ve always worked with, on and around biodiversity data. You will have seen... Continue reading →
Doubling down on people
I’ve been informally calling the current financial year “the year we focused on people”, and we thought we’d discuss why... Continue reading →
Recruiting again
It seems that we are posting job adverts often these days – indeed, Gaia Resources has been growing steadily over... Continue reading →
Archiving Spatial Data
Last week, late local time on a Wednesday night, I was excitedly listening and watching presentations, writing notes and tweeting... Continue reading →
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