Digital Preservation: building the Electric Dream together
For World Digital Preservation Day, we thought we’d talk about how you can build a Digital Preservation System (DPS) in... Continue reading →
Rising to the challenge: Recap of the 2023 Australian Society of Archivists Conference
What is an archive? What are the challenges facing archives in 2023? How can we help archivists do their jobs... Continue reading →
Working on and Speaking to Pre-ingest Digital Preservation Workflows
Gaia Resources has been working in Digital Preservation since 2018. Most recently, in the last year and a half, we... Continue reading →
Here we are (again?)
Sarah and I got the opportunity to go to the Australian Society of Archives conference in Canberra last month, and... Continue reading →
Harnessing the power of AI to unlock the archives
In our previous blog, we spoke about how we were able to apply our prototype Clio machine transcription capability to... Continue reading →
Open Source Solutions in the Museum and Archive Worlds
In the Museum and Archives worlds, the Collection or Archive Management System used impacts everything from the day-to-day business processes... Continue reading →
Archiving Spatial Data
Last week, late local time on a Wednesday night, I was excitedly listening and watching presentations, writing notes and tweeting... Continue reading →
Partnerships, people and change
Gaia Resources is currently undergoing a period of growth and change. However, one of the things that we are bringing... Continue reading →
Archives now and forever!
Last week Meg and I went along to the 2022 opening event for the Western Australian branch of the Australian... Continue reading →
Bringing Digital Preservation to Queensland State Archives
Have you ever had that moment where you urgently needed an old electronic file and finally dug it out only... Continue reading →
Straight to the pool room
We’ve been lucky enough to work with a lot of award winning projects over the years, and there has been... Continue reading →
The Importance of Archives – handling our history
Sometimes we are asked why an environmental technology consultancy works within archives and collections. For us, preserving and understanding the... Continue reading →
Digital Preservation for the Masses
Digital preservation might seem like something that’s only of interest to archives and libraries – certainly those organisations are very... Continue reading →
Upcoming Events for Gaia Resources
We are all well aware of the impacts that COVID-19 has had on how we work and the types of... Continue reading →
PROV are Archive and kicking
A long running project we have been working on is with Public Record Office Victoria (PROV), getting them up and... Continue reading →
Anniversary celebrations at Queensland State Archives
Just over a year ago now, Queensland State Archives (QSA) went live with their new “archiving ecosystem” that was implemented... Continue reading →
Archives Search changing customers lives at the Queensland State Archives
I walked into the quiet, near-empty Reading Room at the Queensland State Archives (QSA) recently. Approaching the staff I stated... 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 →
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 →
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 →