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 →
Biodiversity Information Standards 2020 Virtual Conference
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) is a not-for-profit, scientific and educational association formed to establish international collaboration among the creators, managers... Continue reading →
Managing Tasmania
We have been working with the collections community in Tasmania for quite some time around some other projects (as Morgan... Continue reading →
Twenty years of WA floristic data
I’ve been with Gaia Resources for six years now (!), and grateful to have found a home where my specialist... Continue reading →
Current biodiversity initiatives in Australia
I recently attended an online forum presenting the outcomes of a major review of Australia’s taxonomic resources, as part of... Continue reading →
Our Subject Matter Experts
As an environmental technology company, the majority of our team are highly-qualified software engineers, spatial analysts or well-experienced project managers.... Continue reading →
Q-Album – visualising Queensland’s archive collections
In 2017 Gaia Resources was awarded a small grant as part of the TWiG (Testing Within Government) program within the... Continue reading →
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
You can read this post on the Honey Bee Products Cooperative Research Centre site (see http://www.crchoneybeeproducts.com/phenological-analysis-of-eucalyptus-wandoo-for-honey-bee-foraging/). Why not try out... 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 →