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 →
Open data and innovation in Queensland
Last Friday Gaia Resources was invited to Queensland’s International Open Data Day event, so I went along to set up... 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 →
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 →
What do I want from taxonomy?
Recently, Alex and myself attended the Perth workshop on the “Decadal Scale Strategic Plan for Taxonomy and Biosystematics”, from the... Continue reading →
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 →