CSIRO steps ahead with CollectiveAccess
This is pretty exciting news for us, and we think for the whole Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museum (GLAM) community.... Continue reading →
Aggregating Tasmania
A couple of months ago I introduced a project to work on a combined resource of cultural collection resources across... 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 →
2016 wrapped up
2016 has been, in a word, “challenging”. The economy that we are operating in within Australia has been quite volatile... 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 →
Collecting Tasmania – an introduction
Gaia Resources was recently successful in a tender to work with the state of Tasmania in producing a web pilot... 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 →
When Collections become GLAM
I’m just back from a short trip to Sydney last week where Barbara Reed (Recordkeeping Innovation), James Bullen (Hudson Molonglo)... Continue reading →
Showcasing Western Australian New Music
We have been working for quite some time on the Western Australian New Music Archive (WANMA), and recently we finished... Continue reading →
Western Australian History Goes Online
Last night we officially rolled out the new Royal Western Australian Historical Society (RWAHS) website, collections portal and online shop at their... Continue reading →
YAML Forms for Drupal 8
While we were working on the Royal Western Australian Historical Society project, we made the decision to develop their web site in... Continue reading →
Behind the scenes at the Western Australian Museum
Alex, Morgan and I were lucky enough to recently do a tour of the Western Australian Museum’s new wet store... Continue reading →
Welcome to Morgan!
Piers’ note: This is probably one of our worst kept secrets, but Morgan joined us a few weeks ago, and... Continue reading →
Western Australian history going online
The Royal Western Australian Historical Society Inc. (RWAHS) is a not-for-profit organisation whose Vision is that: “present and future generations... Continue reading →
2015 in Review
Previously, I’ve taken some time around Christmas to write about the highlights of the last 12 months, and I thought... Continue reading →
CSIRO pilots CollectiveAccess
Over the past few months, our Collections team at Gaia Resources have been working with a multi-disciplinary team from CSIRO... Continue reading →
Adding Australian National Species List names to CollectiveAccess
We recently added a plugin to CollectiveAccess to reference names from the Australian National Species Lists.
Archives online
Back in July 2012 Gaia Resources started on a project with the State Records Office (SRO), to help with the... Continue reading →
A milestone at the WA Museum!
Since our last blog in May, Ben, Kehan and myself have been working with the team at the Western Australian... Continue reading →
A view from the trenches of Collection Management
When I started Gaia Resources, one of my biggest projects was supporting the Western Australian Museum’s collections databases. This work... Continue reading →