Biological names management – a WA case study
Taxonomic names for biological entities have a rigorous scientific process for formulation, publication and application. They are the ‘handle’... Continue reading →
CHIN Collection Management System review: our summary
Back in 2017 the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) embarked on a vendor survey of Collection Management System software capabilities... Continue reading →
Biodiversity informatics future requirements
In a blog from last month I wrote about the good work that’s already been done within individual biodiversity knowledge domains. But... Continue reading →
Describing items for small archives – a practical set of considerations
Back in October 2018, Piers presented to the 2018 ASA Conference with Bootstrapping small archives. One of the key artefacts... Continue reading →
Challenge: Dynamic Fungi Field Guide
You hopefully read last October’s blog post on visualising available data on the collecting history of Leadbeater’s Possum in the... Continue reading →
Biodiversity informatics history 101
On the 11th November 1998 I made a presentation to the herbarium staff at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on the... Continue reading →
Managing archives with PROV
Over the last few months we have been working with the Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) to migrate their archival management... Continue reading →
Recapping Collections
Every now and then it’s worth a review of what we’re doing. So, two weeks ago we ran an in-house... Continue reading →
Open data and innovation in Queensland
Last Friday Gaia Resources was invited to Queensland’s International Open Data Day event, so I went along to set up... Continue reading →
A way forward for small Archives
How do I get started as a small archive in terms of technology? This paraphrases a series of questions that... Continue reading →
Discovering Qld – a reflection
We recently participated in the Testing Within Government (TWiG) program as part of the Queensland Government’s Advance Queensland innovation program.... Continue reading →
Mapping our History – and our Future
I did mention in my last blog that my brain was fizzing away about Archives… so much so, that when I... Continue reading →
What do I want from taxonomy?
Recently, Alex and myself attended the Perth workshop on the “Decadal Scale Strategic Plan for Taxonomy and Biosystematics”, from the... Continue reading →
CSIRO steps ahead with CollectiveAccess
This is pretty exciting news for us, and we think for the whole Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museum (GLAM) community.... Continue reading →
Aggregating Tasmania
A couple of months ago I introduced a project to work on a combined resource of cultural collection resources across... Continue reading →
Smaller Archives, Technology and Forever.
Last week I presented to the Victorian Branch of the Australian Society of Archivists about the work that Gaia Resources does... Continue reading →
2016 wrapped up
2016 has been, in a word, “challenging”. The economy that we are operating in within Australia has been quite volatile... Continue reading →
Down the Rabbit Hole with Archives
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re... Continue reading →
Collecting Tasmania – an introduction
Gaia Resources was recently successful in a tender to work with the state of Tasmania in producing a web pilot... Continue reading →
Geo-referencing Archives with QGIS
A while back we posted about how we’d taken some town planning maps from the State Records Office of WA... Continue reading →