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 →
A long journey to records management
When I was asked to present at the Records and Information Management Professionals Association (RIMPA) roadshow in Western Australia recently,... 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 →
AI, engagement and the value of Art
Gaia Resources works to bring technology solutions to bear where there is a problem to be solved for the benefit... 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 →
QAGOMA: Collections Online
For those of you who may have been following along from home, at Gaia Resources we have a real passion... 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →