Designing the Archive
I leapt into the rabbit hole that is Archives yet again this year – building on my previous attendance in... Continue reading →
Phenological analysis of Eucalyptus wandoo for honey bee foraging
As part of the project I’m involved with in the Honey Bee Products Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) I recently delivered a... Continue reading →
Digital Archives across Government
It’s no secret that we’ve been working with Archives for some time – starting with the State Records Office of... Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
Delivering on collaboration
Since our last blog back in September about the BioSys work we had been finalising with the NSW Office of... Continue reading →
Post apocalyptic archives
Last week was the annual Australian Society of Archivists conference held in Perth – with a theme of “Archives in... Continue reading →
Bootstrapping small archives
The last couple of days has seen Morgan and I at the Australian Society of Archivists national conference, held here... 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 →
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 →
The Fastest Digital Preservation in the West
Recently I gave a radio interview at local Perth radio station 6PR, about how Gaia Resources has evolved over the... 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 →
A second trip to Wonderland…
Last year in October, I fell down a rabbit hole at my first Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) conference, and... 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 →