Blogs

Gaia Resources has been supporting the Western Australian branch of the Australian Society of Archivists’ Professional Development days for quite a few years:

Travelling for a conference is always an outsized experience. New places, new people, new connections, new directions, so much input! So it was with much excitement that I travelled to Wellington, New Zealand recently for the DrupalSouth 2026 conference.

The theme for this year’s United Nations International Day for Biodiversity on 22 May 2026 is ‘Acting locally for global impact’. To celebrate this day, we’ve handed the blog over to Gill White, one of our Consulting Scientists, to reflect on how the environmental data projects we deliver at Gaia Resources contribute to the United Nations’ work on biodiversity conservation.

Life moves pretty fast. So does technology. If you’ve been in tech over the last five years, you know the pace of AI advancement is relentless. At Gaia Resources, we’ve shared our AI journey from fish image detection (2021) and handwriting analysis (2022) to more recently building the MATE framework for AI transcription and search of archival records. But for a team of passionate professionals, 'building' is never truly finished. We review, we audit, and - most importantly - we continue to tinker.

They say time flies when you’re having fun, that’s exactly how it feels after recently celebrating my 5 years at Gaia.

I joined the team in March 2021, stepping into the role of Marketing Coordinator. 

In late 2025, we headed to windy Wellington for the wonderful iPRES and PARBICA conferences. During this trip we had an inspiring question to answer: is there a way to empower passionate archiving professionals to deliver Digital Preservation on a budget?

We stumbled upon the recent Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) from multiple different places all at once a few weeks ago - from people we met at IPRES 2025 last year, and from current clients that we’re working with.  The JTS is a highly technical event, as outlined in the brief:

International Women’s Day was on Sunday the 8th of March, 2026.  To help celebrate this day, we’ve handed the blog over to Gill White, one of our Consulting Scientists to talk about how some of the programs at Gaia Resources provide support, and what the day means to her.

With the first two days of Team Week spent on our strategies for the future and empowering our teams we turned our focus to one of our other core goals - leaving the world a better place. Our destination for the final official day of Team Week was the beautiful Rottnest Island and our vibes were more relaxed - less office desks and laptops, more sunscreen and boardshorts.

If Day One of Team Week was about whole-of-business strategy, Day Two was about something just as powerful: giving teams the space to strengthen themselves.

We started the morning in our functional teams - but how that looked was entirely up to them: