Managing Tasmania
We have been working with the collections community in Tasmania for quite some time around some other projects (as Morgan... Continue reading →
RetroMaps
Gaia Resources was engaged by the State Records Office of Western Australia (SROWA) in early 2019 to design and develop... 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Discovering Qld – a reflection
We recently participated in the Testing Within Government (TWiG) program as part of the Queensland Government’s Advance Queensland innovation program.... 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 →
Discovering Queensland
Earlier this year Gaia Resources applied to join the Testing Within Government (TWiG program) as part of Advance Queensland. With... Continue reading →
Smaller Archives, Technology and Forever.
Last week I presented to the Victorian Branch of the Australian Society of Archivists about the work that Gaia Resources does... Continue reading →
Down the Rabbit Hole with Archives
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re... Continue reading →
Geo-referencing Archives with QGIS
A while back we posted about how we’d taken some town planning maps from the State Records Office of WA... Continue reading →