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 →
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 →
Challenge: Dynamic Fungi Field Guide
You hopefully read last October’s blog post on visualising available data on the collecting history of Leadbeater’s Possum in the... Continue reading →