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 →
Rising to the challenge: Recap of the 2023 Australian Society of Archivists Conference
What is an archive? What are the challenges facing archives in 2023? How can we help archivists do their jobs... Continue reading →
Working on and Speaking to Pre-ingest Digital Preservation Workflows
Gaia Resources has been working in Digital Preservation since 2018. Most recently, in the last year and a half, we... 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 →
Harnessing the power of AI to unlock the archives
In our previous blog, we spoke about how we were able to apply our prototype Clio machine transcription capability to... Continue reading →
AI, engagement and the value of Art
Gaia Resources works to bring technology solutions to bear where there is a problem to be solved for the benefit... Continue reading →
Open Source Solutions in the Museum and Archive Worlds
In the Museum and Archives worlds, the Collection or Archive Management System used impacts everything from the day-to-day business processes... Continue reading →
Archives now and forever!
Last week Meg and I went along to the 2022 opening event for the Western Australian branch of the Australian... Continue reading →
Bringing Digital Preservation to Queensland State Archives
Have you ever had that moment where you urgently needed an old electronic file and finally dug it out only... Continue reading →
QAGOMA: Collections Online
For those of you who may have been following along from home, at Gaia Resources we have a real passion... Continue reading →
Straight to the pool room
We’ve been lucky enough to work with a lot of award winning projects over the years, and there has been... Continue reading →
The Importance of Archives – handling our history
Sometimes we are asked why an environmental technology consultancy works within archives and collections. For us, preserving and understanding the... Continue reading →
Digital Preservation for the Masses
Digital preservation might seem like something that’s only of interest to archives and libraries – certainly those organisations are very... Continue reading →
PROV are Archive and kicking
A long running project we have been working on is with Public Record Office Victoria (PROV), getting them up and... Continue reading →
The ALA and Big Data for Biodiversity
On Wednesday 9 December, Chris Roach and I attended a webinar hosted by the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), celebrating... Continue reading →
Transforming Queensland State Archives
For the last two years, we have been quietly working (along with our consortium partners from Hudson Molonglo and Recordkeeping... Continue reading →
TDWG 2020 Conference – avenues into integration
The Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) annual conference was, like so many others, an online-only experience. With an audience of uber-nerds... Continue reading →
Small Museums Conference 2020
This past Friday and Saturday, I was thrilled to attend the Small Museums Conference, hosted at the Historic Ormiston House.... Continue reading →
Twenty Years of Descriptive Data
As part of his ongoing series of retrospectives on the development of significant biodiversity data sets in Western Australia, Alex... Continue reading →
Archives and RetroMaps
I attended a recent presentation organised by the National Archives of Australia (NAA) at their Perth offices in Northbridge, entitled... Continue reading →