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 →
Launching Wildlife Drones in WA
Deb from Wildlife Drones was in town in mid-December 2018 presenting their integrated wildlife tracking system to Department of Biodiversity,... Continue reading →
Environmental Health, Data Standards and Open Source Software
Recently, I was asked to give a couple of talks to the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security (IPCHS) around the... Continue reading →
FOSS4G open source conference recap
Jake and I are back from Melbourne where we were one of hundreds of open-source spatial software enthusiasts attending last... Continue reading →
What’s new in QGIS 3.4
As most regular readers would be aware by now, we’re supporters of QGIS, and have made our commercial training course... Continue reading →
Drones for birds
A few years back Gaia Resources looked at the rise of drones (or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles if you prefer) and... Continue reading →
Threatened species – mapping stories
I attended the NESP Threatened Species Recovery Hub Roadshow recently, hosted by WA’s Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions Science Division. The... Continue reading →
BioSys and National Collaboration
In August 2015 I published a blog about a pilot for the BioSys software that we had developed with the... Continue reading →
Mapping All Over the World
♫ And I like it, I like it… It’s been nearly four months since we released our free Environmental Quantum... Continue reading →
FOSS4G Oceania
We usually attend or sponsor conferences for a couple of different reasons; either there is an opportunity to learn something... 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 →
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 →
Under GRID’s hood
Our GRID product – the online, easy to use GIS for the Natural Resources Management (NRM) community – continues to... 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 →
The Disadvantages of Open Source
(Yes, this is a clickbait title) I heard a phrase recently which was really upsetting: “What are the disadvantages of... Continue reading →
QGIS leaping ahead
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is really taking off as a free, open source Geographic Information System (GIS) package across the environmental (and... 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 →
Using Virtual Reality to assist decision making
We’ve been working and partnering with some Queensland based Natural Resource Management (NRM) groups to expand the services we offer... 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 →