Blogs

It seems to come around quicker and quicker, but it’s time for another end of calendar year wrap up blog (and yes, I reused the title quip from last year too).

2025 has been another big year, and this year as I reflect back across the year, I find myself looking back fondly and quite equally across our two core areas; the collections and the environment sectors.

Our recent trip to Wellington in November for iPRES2025 and PARBICA was nothing short of inspiring. You may have noticed our recent deluge of content on our social media around this - sorry, not sorry. We had the amazing opportunity of collaborating with passionate digital preservation practitioners from across the globe - each deeply committed to safeguarding cultural heritage, community stories, and digital collections.

So you have decided upon the infrastructure - be it cloud, or on-premise - and the software - be it open source or commercially licenced.  You need to also think about what happens to both of these over time and how you will continue to operate your digital Archive moving forward.  The third part of this, that we’ve been sitting on for a while, are the people behind these systems - often called 

Two conferences, one stunning city, and a shared mission: to learn, contribute, and strengthen the digital preservation community across our region and beyond. Our team - Sarah, Tyler, Piers and myself (Jarrad) - arrived in Wellington for iPRES and PARBICA ready to listen, to share what we’ve been building, and to connect with the people driving some of the most important work in archives and collections today.

Happy GIS Day! Today we celebrate the power of all things geospatial and the people who use it to make better decisions for our environment, communities, and industries. It’s also a great moment to reflect on what our spatial team has accomplished over the past year.

Across Western Australia - from the Koolan Island coast to the South West - our team has been working behind the scenes to build reliable, accessible and fit-for-purpose geospatial solutions. Some of our key focus areas this year include:

As a Business Analyst (BA), no two days are the same - whether it’s troubleshooting a system, running multiple workshops, or working across diverse industries like health, biodiversity, and museum archives. The journey to becoming a BA is often winding, shaped by a curiosity to ask "why?" and a strong passion for creating clarity in complex environments. From mapping out business needs and translating between technical and business teams, to guiding projects with a shared understanding of purpose, BAs play a pivotal role in transforming challenges into solutions.

The Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) ran another Professional Development (PD) day this year in Western Australia, and it’s the tenth ASA PD day or conference that we’ve attended to support the archival community - something we really enjoy being a part of.

A few weeks ago I got the opportunity to briefly speak at the Environmental Institute of Australia and New Zealand’s (EIANZ) Environmental Impact Symposium for 2025.  The EIANZ put on an excellent event in Sydney, and a great recap of both

Coming to the tailend of August means a few big things in Brisbane - RiverFire is normally only a few weeks ago, the flu season is winding down after everyone got sick at the EKKA and Something Tech is back in town.

It’s National Science Week here in Australia at the moment and as part of that we thought we’d talk to a few of our team who focus on science - our two Consulting Scientists, Mieke and Gill, and our founder, Piers - about what science has given them over their careers and what it means to them.  Their responses - and photos!