While Business Analysts are still an integral part of our teams, the IT field has changed since 2021. In line with Heraclitus’ words, “the only constant in life is change,” our world is ever evolving and tools such as Artificial Intelligence, or AI, are ever present in all areas of life. As a Business Analyst, this raises questions about how AI will change our work and impact the future of the BA role. What does the uptake and evolution of AI mean for a Business Analyst in 2023? What are the opportunities? Where are the efficiencies? What is the role of the human?

Business analysis does not occur in a vacuum. It is critical to understand and leverage relevant information at the right time. This can be a challenge given the volume of information available but the limited time frame available to gather and digest this information. Harnessing the tools at hand allows more time and energy for critical thinking, problem solving, mastery of business nuances and space for further specialisation.

It is here where the considered use of AI can prove beneficial. Employing AI in its various guises can condense and curate information at a speed that is unlikely to be matched by human analysis. If AI is considered another tool in the BA skillset, it can reduce time spent on manual tasks such as reviewing data to identify trends. 

That said, for AI to be impactful and most beneficial, it needs to be introduced at the appropriate time in the analysis process with methods to validate and cross-reference the outcomes. An understanding of what AI tools are appropriate for the task at hand is becoming essential knowledge for BAs. Further to the available tools, BAs will require the skill of effectively using the AI tools to generate desired outcomes. The job of a BA does not stop there; any output will require a close review to ensure accuracy, quality and consistency. 

Much of the above thinking is geared towards how AI can be used by a BA for the job at hand. However, we acknowledge this is only a small subset of AI. At the risk of stating the obvious, AI is an expanding field in its own right, and its uses and adaptation will grow in leaps and bounds. While change is a constant, we have a suspicion that AI and its uses will soon become a constant, too. At Gaia Resources, we are looking forward and thinking about these changes. We’re doing the review and the analysis. We are weighing the opportunities, identifying the risks and planning for a future where our Business Analysts can consider and incorporate AI to maximise their impact. We are excited for what’s next. 

If you want to know more about Business Analysts at Gaia Resources and how they can contribute to the success of your technical solutions, feel free to get in touch! Or start a conversation with us on Facebook, X or LinkedIn.

Sarah & Natalie 

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The ‘Workflow Webinar’ series was hosted by the DPC-led, Community Owned Workflow (COW) group. It is a forum developed out of the need for shared Digital preservation knowledge and workflows amongst practitioners. The COW resources are hosted through the Community-Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry (COPTR) wiki. It is a great online resource and is worth looking through when you have the time. https://coptr.digipres.org/index.php/Workflow:Community_Owned_Workflows 

QSA and Gaia responded together to the request for presenters and we were booked into Episode 3 of the webinar series in March. The aim was to highlight the primary decisions and the tools that were implemented to enable the Archivist workflow. Of key importance was demonstrating how QSA planned to do Digital Preservation at scale – including large ingests, as well as collecting and preserving the large influx of digital material in the pipeline. 

On the day, QSA and Gaia Resources split the twenty-minute time slot, with QSA leading the discussion. They laid out their plan to address legacy records transferred to them on physical media types, which are quickly becoming obsolete (think floppy disks). Gaia Resources followed with an explanation of how and why with our consortium partners, Hudson Molonglo, Record Keeping Innovations, and Artefactual, we built a pre-ingest workflow into ArchivesSpace. The integration of the Digital Preservation System into the existing Archival Management System provides the Archivists with a single point of truth, ArchivesSpace. The pre-ingest workflow in ArchivesSpace authenticates the digital material sent by state agencies, ensuring files have not encountered alteration or bitrot before being imported into the Digital Preservation System. Once the checks are complete, the user clicks the ‘Begin Import’ button, initiating the Digital Preservation workflow. 

Our presentation was well received and nicely expanded on the previous talks in the session. The first session was a great talk by Julia Miller from the PARADISEC Archive. She focused on small archive workflows and talked through the tools that are used at PARADISEC. However, another excellent component of her talk was about the education tools PARADISEC provides for other small archives. Building on Julia’s talk, Andrew Martin from DAMSmart discussed the work that DAMSmart has done with PARADIESEC to digitise and preserve their collection, as well as, provide education around tools and uses. Thus, Episode 3 of the series covered ways that small archives can get started in digital preservation and moved into decisions and considerations when conducting digital preservation activities at scale.

Our team has enjoyed working in digital preservation, collaborating with clients and staying in tune with the wider field. We have participated in continual education opportunities in the digital preservation field and work to gain insight into the processes that others are implementing across the world. Some of our members of the collection team recently attended a DatacomIT webinar ‘Where to Start with Digital Preservation’ in February. It was a high-level session that gave an overview of the fundamentals of implementing digital preservation in various organisations. This session included an introduction from Robin Wright, the Head of the local DPC Australasia and Asia Pacific branch. It is always a good feeling at these events when you fact-check conversations that are had internally and with clients and you know we are headed in the right direction. 

We look forward to exploring future opportunities and expanding our engagements.

Are you interested in digital preservation? Get in touch with us via email or start a conversation with us on one of our social media platforms Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook

Sarah

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Many of our blogs on open source software focus on spatial tools and the hard sciences. What we haven’t delved into recently is the importance of open source software in the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). Ten years ago, Piers wrote a blog about open source collection management and it’s time for an update. Today we will focus on the growth of these solutions, our continuing support of them (and of that sector), and the open source projects we’ve been putting in place recently in GLAM organisations. 

First, to recap, open source software means that the source code is published freely – anyone can download a copy of the code, use it, and customise it. There is also the benefit of reduced ongoing costs – rather than continuing to pay annual licensing fees, open source software installations require only hosting, and upgrades to the code. In addition to financial sustainability, open source software provides technical sustainability. Because the code is freely available, it means that the community of users can contribute bug fixes and improvements in an ongoing fashion. Realising that many GLAM organisations don’t have specialised IT departments, implementation of the software and upgrades is where Gaia Resources can assist, and we have various levels of support that can be tailored to an institution’s needs. 

Open source software also supports the evidential value and provenance of your records – the source code is freely available and can be audited to ensure that your data is not being changed or manipulated by the system. Open source software provides a level of transparency for institutions that need to be able to attest that their collections are untampered with. 

When working with a collecting organisation, we usually recommend one of three open source tools; Access to Memory (AtoM), CollectiveAccess, or ArchivesSpace. The solutions we provide can be out of the box – that is, it is installed as “vanilla versions” without customisation – or in some cases, they can be heavily customised such as with our Queensland State Archives implementation of ArchivesSpace. We have particular experience in implementing the Australian Series System for archives in all of these software packages. 

Access to Memory is an open source tool that is developed and maintained by Artefactual (one of our partners in the current Digital Preservation project for Queensland State Archives). Artefactual also develops and maintains Archivematica – a tool for Digital Preservation. AtoM, as it is known colloquially, is a great tool for small to medium size archives. It provides not only an easy to use interface for staff, but offers an immediate web presence that allows public access to search the collections. For many of our customers, we have implemented add-ons or plugins to provide customised functionality, ranging from subscriber-only access to digital materials to online ordering. 

CollectiveAccess is another popular open source collection management tool. Its flexibility is a key benefit of the software, and it can be implemented to manage collections of museum objects (including all SPECTRUM functions), archival records, and digital materials. We have implemented CollectiveAccess for several clients from across the GLAM sector, from archives to high-end art collections, and even not for profits managing their own historical collections. Whirl-i-gig, out of the United States, maintains the source code for CollectiveAccess, and our own Gaia Resources developers have contributed bug fixes and added new features to the source code as we make improvements for our clients. 

ArchivesSpace is the tool that we have implemented at the greatest scale. Queensland State Archives uses a highly customised version of ArchivesSpace to manage their 64 kilometres of government records. While ArchivesSpace does come with a public interface, our work with QSA included a custom-built public interface, ArchivesSearch, and we have also implemented these systems for clients in Tasmania. Lyrasis, again in the United States, maintains ArchivesSpace core code.      

With our experience over the last fifteen years, we understand the needs of collecting organisations and can recommend solutions that fit the needs and scale of the client. We stand by our passion for open source software solutions and advocate for them as the most sustainable solution for collecting institutions. Whether your organisation is small and volunteer-run or you have kilometres of records, one of the above systems can be implemented in a way to suit your needs. 

Think we can help assess or even customise the best tool for your organisation? Get in touch with us via email or start a conversation with us on one of our social media platforms – Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook.

Sarah

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One year ago I blogged about how Gaia Resources created time for the women (and truly all staff) of the company to come together and speak on sensitive matters in a safe space. We raised issues of sexism in previous employment and how we feel supported by not only leadership but by the whole team, men and women alike.  

As a follow on from last year, those who were interested were encouraged to continue the discussions. The group met a handful of times to discuss topics such as what it means to have a family and be a working woman, what it means to be childless in today’s society, and sexism in finance. Conversations were rich and it was warming to encounter such a diverse range of experiences and opinions.   

This year, rather than taking you along on our discussions, I’d like to highlight a couple of our outstanding female staff from across the company. Gaia Resources is a company with a gender ratio of almost a cool 50:50. Personally, I find it rewarding to work in a company where women are in every role, from leadership to DevOps to support. Furthermore, as a Developer, I take pride that I am not the sole female Developer. However, for today, in their own words, Tracey Cousens and Tanya Aquino describe their experiences being female and working in various roles.

Tracey Cousens: 

I’ve had a very varied working life, from labouring to STEM to tech support. I’ve found my time as a Business Developer for Gaia to be refreshing in that I have rarely found my gender to be an issue. I’m aware that a big part of this is the nature of the role – I am predominantly listening to clients and working with them to find solutions. The issues tend to arise whenever you have to push back on a client. 

In any role, in any company, when you have to say no to a client, the attitude towards you can be vastly different to that of your male colleagues, even when delivering the exact same message. I’ve experienced this from both men and women – if you are not telling them what they want to hear, they go over your head, only to be completely accepting of the same information from a male, regardless of job title or authority. 

I’ve pondered the reasoning for this – is it a man’s appearance? Their deeper voice? Their confidence? When these attitudes come from other women it can be especially disheartening and confusing, and I don’t even think they realise they are doing it. 

Digital communication such as emails can create a certain disconnect between people, which makes building relationships trickier in many ways. But they can also be advantageous in that they help to remove preconceived notions based on a person’s age and appearance. The increasing need for video calls has been somewhat of an advantage for me –  everyone on video calls appears about the same height. As a person who is barely tall enough to reach the accelerator pedal in my car, I have to say I have definitely felt people take me more seriously as a professional when they only see me from the torso up! 

I think attitudes are steadily improving as time goes by, and I believe all people can play a part in improving things by examining their own unconscious biases. Personally, I have been working on appearing more confident through my tone of voice and delivery, and not pathologically apologising for things that aren’t my fault. But I’m also looking forward to the day I don’t have to try to act more like a man to get a point across.

Tanya Aquino:

At parties, when people ask me what I do, my stock response has been “I manage teams in IT”.  (Purists will note this isn’t very precise – but it’s good enough for parties!)  I’ve been saying that for 25-ish years now.  The response was often … curious surprise.  “Wow .. wouldn’t have picked that!”.  Or, “My, that sounds like a big job – do you have kids?”.  That is; the response was often not about the thing I had just told them I did, it was a reaction to something about me, the person who was telling them.   

I’m not entirely sure what part of my answer inspired this kind of response.  Was it the “IT” part?  Or was it the “manage” part?  Or the fact that at some points they would have been looking for a young (early 20’s) IT professional.  Who knows?  But it would seem that at some level I’d disrupted some assumptions about who does management, who does IT, how old they are, what kind of a person they should be, whether they had kids or how they should look …   

It’s fair to say that I get less curious surprise about me .. and more interest in the thing I do (“Cool, what kind of IT and where”?) these days.  I’d like to believe that my experience of this happening less in more recent times is a shared one.  But I know I’ve been lucky.  I’ve been able to always choose to work in organisations that value inclusivity, diversity and equality, places that ‘walk the talk’, with policies to ‘define and enshrine’ these values, supported by tangible practices – such as selection activities and targeted career opportunities.  I also recognise that my experience comes from a place of privilege – and others will have many different stories. 

But my experience is what formed my strongly held belief that one of the most important obligations I have as a (now older!) woman who ‘manages teams in IT’ is to make sure that at the foundations of everything we do – how we manage our teams, recruit our people, how we train them and treat them –  must continue to have at its heart the ‘breaking of bias’.  

I truly believe it’s our difference that makes us better.

This year’s International Women’s Day theme is #BreakTheBias. Both Tracey and Tanya spoke to the biases they have faced head-on. Through conversations and stories like theirs, we take the steps forward to breaking down stereotypes. We all have bias but recognising and working to overcome it is what will make this world a better place. Thanks to both for sharing their story. 

If you’d like to know more, if you would like to work with a team that supports and encourages diversity, or if you simply want to tell your story, feel free to email me or start a chat with us via Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.

Sarah

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For a handful of our non-technical team members, workshops such as those hosted by She Codes provide a great environment to expand their understanding of web development.  She Codes hosts one-day weekend workshops for women and non-binary individuals to introduce them to coding. Sophie Darnell wrote about taking advantage of a virtual She Codes workshop at the beginning of the pandemic. Although these classes are outside of normal working hours, they are recognised as work hours by the company. 

While as a company we fully embrace continual learning, we also enjoy giving back and fostering the learning of others. Throughout 2020 and 2021, Software Engineer Sarah Aldrich donated many evenings and weekends to mentor for the She Codes Plus six-month bootcamp. 

Our team at Gaia Resources are a pretty diverse bunch, and the ways we prefer to learn and communicate are pretty diverse too. We have a broad range of skills and an amazing cohort of colleagues who are happy to share what they know. So sometimes when we want to learn a new skill, the first place to start is with each other.

Gaia Resources prefers to use open source software in our solutions, where appropriate (Read Chris’s introduction to open source software here). One open source solution that we have implemented for our clients is Drupal. Drupal is a Content Management System (CMS), available to download for free. One of our Senior Developers, Brianna Williams (Bri), has been using her knowledge and experience with Drupal to bring open source content management systems to our clients. One of the most recent of these was the delivery of the Collections Online solution for the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) late last year. She is also a member of the Drupal Brisbane Meetup group, sharing ideas and challenges with other developers using the platform.

Bri realised that other team members (mostly non-technical) were interested in expanding their knowledge of CMSs but struggled to find solid foundational beginner resources. Having had positive experiences using Pantheon hosting on Drupal projects, and benefiting from their online resources, she decided it would be a good place for the team to start. While the resources themselves are self-paced and online, it can often be intimidating if you are starting ‘from scratch’ to complete them by yourself. If you encounter an issue, there may not be many ways to solve it in real-time, and it is harder to confidently complete. Bri recognised these barriers to entry and arranged a session for interested team members to work through the training together, with a dedicated chat line for her to help out anyone who got stuck as soon as possible, and for us all to learn from each other’s mistakes.

Voon-Li Chung leading an Arduino lesson

Once a month, all Software Engineers meet to discuss tools and practises, to stay abreast of what is happening in the field. In these meetings we also share the outcomes of personal PD projects and discuss avenues for future ones. Recently the Software Engineers have embarked on a bit of group PD. One of our mobile developers, Voon Li Chung, kindly volunteered to run Arduino workshops for all interested parties. Upon completion of official business, the Software Engineering meetings turn into hands-on lessons where Voon-Li guides us in a build. Each lesson is designed to build on previous lessons and to demonstrate specific capabilities of Arduinos. Starting with turning on light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and making them flash, we have progressed to learning about H-Bridges that will eventually enable our robots to move both forward and in reverse.  

It is great to learn with a team who are so interested in taking on new challenges and discovering new solutions. Whether we are learning from each other or teaching each other, Gaia Resources has successfully fostered an environment where we are all comfortable exploring new things.

If you want to be a part of a team that values learning or if you have something you can teach our team, reach out! We would love to hear from you. Reach out directly via info@gaiaresources.com.au or connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook. 

Sarah

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When Gaia Resources was smaller, BA tasks were often subsumed by the Project Managers. As we grew, those doing the work held such job titles as “Consulting Scientist”, “Archives Specialist”, “Collections Specialist”, and still “Project Manager”.  However, with the frequency of winning complex projects and our commitment to internal reflection and growth, a new team of Business Analysts has been established, allowing better knowledge sharing and procedures. The BA unit includes some of those who previously held the title of “Specialist”. Thus, we maintain our subject matter expertise on each project.

Still, many people ask what is a Business Analyst and what do they do? The way the Business Analyst role has separated from the Project Manager’s role is that the Business Analyst is the one that is across the business as usual of the client. He or she knows the pain points and what potential options our team can offer to provide solutions. This is best achieved by having and utilising subject matter expertise, client engagement, and consultation with the technical in-house staff, such as architects and developers, about what is achievable before relaying options. This active role that the Business Analyst plays in the design of the implementation puts them in a position to define the success criteria along with the client to determine if what is produced is actually fit for purpose. The Business Analyst is directly involved in taking on feedback during the testing phase and determines the required actions to take to fix them. These range from deciding if there is a need to revisit requirements, deciding if a scope variation is needed, and identifying bugs to be remedied. From there, the other members of the team can be informed and act under the direction of the Project Manager.

At Gaia Resources, our approach to projects is to work collaboratively with our clients. As such, the role of a Business Analyst is crucial to developing a rapport that can allow them to truly understand their requirements, and how best we can fulfil those within the scope of a project. With a mixture of subject matter experts and team members with a solid project management background, our newly minted Business Analyst unit has the specialised domain expertise and project delivery methodology to deliver projects that add true value to our clients.

 If you want to know how our Business Analysts can help guide your technical project to success, feel free to get in touch with one of our Business Analysts or start a conversation with us on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.

Sarah

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As the company grows, it gives me pause to reflect on my start just a year and a half ago. It was around the beginning of the pandemic. Gaia Resources was operating fully remote, and onboarding was a week of video meetings introducing me to the staff and the Gaia way. Tania Ryan detailed the experience in her blog ‘Starting a new job during a Pandemic’. She highlighted the lengths the company went to provide a welcoming albeit virtual environment. 

Since then, we have embraced a flexible work environment where we balance work from home and office days (detailed in Mieke’s blog ‘Remote Flexible Work Pitfalls for Parents’). Onboarding directly reflects this with a mix of in-person and video meetings, allowing recruits to meet our whole team, now spread across five states/territories, as well as get in-person support. Flexible work arrangements are valued by all staff at Gaia Resources. However, there is nothing like tapping a coworker on the shoulder to ask a simple question when you’re new. 

Regardless of how we introduce new staff to our team, we always emphasise our company culture and espouse the values that we highlighted in our recent strategy week: Do the right thing, Be open, Be involved, Do what you said you would do, and Be there for each other. (See https://archive.gaiaresources.com.au/gaia-resources-annual-stratgey-week/). We are a company that doesn’t just pay lip service to what we think are good values. Instead, we put a large amount of effort into making them a reality. As such, Gaia Resources truly invests in their people and builds a culture of which we are all proud. And I think this is one reason why we continue to attract great talent. 

I wrote the above words before reaching out to our new team members to see why they chose to work at Gaia Resources, but it sounds like all of the above rings true. 

Meet Gordon Campbell and Sally Mitchell!

Hello, my name is Gordon Campbell a.k.a Minty Jones.

I hail from the shores of South West Scotland but have resided in Australia for 20 years. My love of programming started at nine years old and I started freelancing around 2001. Since then, I have earned qualifications in Graphic Design, Interactive Multimedia, and most recently, IT (Software Programming).

Aside from this, I have two children, am a keen musician, and have been a signwriter on the side for the last six years. Within Gaia Resources, I fill a Junior Software Engineer role working primarily within the behemoth that is known as ArchivesSpace. Having a family, especially a recent newborn, work/life balance is very important to me and Gaia offers a great degree of flexibility within their structure.

I decided to take this opportunity with Gaia as I believe that they provide a service that is concerned about the future of the planet, and I find this extremely refreshing. I’m proud that I can work with like-minded people trying to make this world a better place.

Hi, I’m Sally. I have been brought onboard to Gaia Resources as a Support Coordinator.

The thing that first interested me in Gaia Resources was the values and ethics. Gaia Resources works with companies to develop technological solutions to make the world a better place. This includes choosing projects and clients whose own work and values contribute positively to the world. It was this strong principle that made me look further into Gaia Resources.

Gaia Resources believes strongly in its culture and its employees and places a higher value on the relationships with their people than the money they bring into the company. It’s been such a welcoming and inclusive environment. I am only in my first month, but so far this is shaping up to be the best company that I have worked for. 

If you want to work with us or talk to a staff member about their experience, please get in touch! Reach out via email at info@gaiaresouces.com.au or connect with us on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn

Sarah

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To mark International Women’s Day, the women of Gaia Resources held a virtual meetup for all women in the company* to discuss our experiences as women in the workplace and how we can create positive change.

Before the event, individuals provided prompts to get our thoughts and discussion flowing. To test your own experiences and awareness, consider:

• Which women inspire you?
• Have you experienced workplace discrimination or abuse based on your gender?
• In what ways can we work towards a more equitable workplace. 
• The role of ‘sisterhoods’ and gender-specific support groups, and how we can use these safe spaces to create social change (e.g. Men’s Sheds, women-only social groups).

The virtual discussion was illuminating – nearly everyone had experienced blatant sexism and discrimination, witnessed other women stand down in the face of sexism, and had their ideas ignored only to have the same idea stated by a male colleague taken seriously. Some of the experiences were downright heartbreaking. 

However, these experiences had predominantly been at other companies (across a range of industries); thus an immediate takeaway was that we are very fortunate to work at Gaia Resources, where all staff are supported, regardless of sex, race, or creed. 

So what makes Gaia Resources so different? We have to credit leadership for emphasising a positive company culture and hiring people who embrace a similar ethos – a persons skill set is not the only consideration when we hire new staff. This culture has been a primary focus of CEO Piers Higgs as he built the company over the years.

Even in this time of remote work, Gaia Resources has striven to provide cohesion, not just between colleagues in the same city, but across the country, including our smaller offices. While no workplaces are perfect, it was evident from our discussion that employees feel comfortable speaking up when they have an issue, understand that they have a support network, and know that their voices are heard.  Both men and women take it upon themselves to create a welcoming work environment. It’s been noted that when you’re the only woman in a room full of Gaia men, you often don’t notice because it’s never made apparent. This is an incredibly rare thing and a refreshing change from many of our previous experiences.

A prime example of the positive culture at Gaia Resources is that we were encouraged to have this event on company time, in a format of our choosing. A big thank you to our executive team, Piers and Andrew, for making this possible and encouraging employees to have meaningful, challenging conversations about the big topics.

If  you’d like to know more, feel free to email me, or start a chat with us via Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.

The writing of this blog post was a collaboration by many Gaia Resources employees

*Note: Whilst we considered extending the invitation to all staff, we opted for an initial safe space to explore thoughts and experiences. 

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Q-Album was developed by Gaia Resources in conjunction with Queensland State Archives to provide a platform where small and medium-sized organisations can share the “gems” in their collections.

Screenshot of the Q-Album home page

The project went live at the start of this year and currently has six organisations contributing content. Q-Album is free for contributors and everyone involved in the project hopes to see this number grow over the coming months.

You can explore Q-Album for yourself here: https://qalbum.archives.qld.gov.au/.

There were other engaging talks at the conference which also discussed the use of technology in the heritage sector. We discussed podcasting, the pros and cons of particular collection management software, and the discrepancy between tourism and heritage tourism. Further topics recognised the importance of volunteers, the challenges of fundraising, and sharing difficult-to-tell stories. Common to all was how museums, large and small are using technology, innovating tools, and looking ahead to the future. You can find abstracts of the presented papers here.

With a conference theme of Environment – Heritage -Sustainability, the talk ‘At the Intersection – Sustainability, Climate Change & Collection Care’ was particularly poignant. Presented by Amanda Pagliarino, Head of Conservation and Registration from Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, the talk informed attendees about recent studies at the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials (AICCM) and the Environmental Guidelines Project. As a past Archivist/Collections Manager, it was encouraging to hear that museums are reflecting on their carbon footprint, adjusting collection care standards accordingly, and democratising their policies.

Thank you to the Historic Ormiston House and others for making the in-person Small Museums Conference possible in 2020! I look forward to staying in touch and engaged with the heritage and museum sector here in Queensland.

As always, if you’d like to know more about this event or if you have perspectives you would like to share on museums in Queensland, then please drop me a line at sarah.aldrich@gaiaresources.com.au, or connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook..

Sarah

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