Geeky stuff- Building an archive solution
- Preprints and repositories in the Soviet Union
- Light weight cataloguing with BibTex
- What do we actually mean by data retention?
- Using BibTex for artefact description
- Open source literature and citizen science
- Scientific communication in pre 1989 Eastern Europe
- What is a repository?
- Lodlam 2015
- Electronic resources and BibTeX
- Exporting references from Dspace in BibTeX format
Author Archives: dgm
Pennies!
Now and again, people ask me about old coins and such like they’ve found digging in their gardens. Mostly they’re low value coins, pennies and half pennies. Covered in dirt, and perhaps a little corroded, they can seem difficult to … Continue reading
The Marseilles – Ventimiglia railway ..
The Marseille Ventimiglia railway has quite a storied history. When it opened in the early 1870s it provided a link, in fact the only railway link between Italy and France, and remained so until the lines across the Alps via … Continue reading
Another Too Late postmark
I’ve been spending my pennies again, this time on another example of a Too Late postmark on a postcard from April 1883 sent to a hotel in San Remo in Italy The reverse shows an acknowledgement from Pitt and Scott, … Continue reading
Cocaine, 1916, and the bright young things…
Since discovering Agatha Christie, I’ve read two or three of her novels, and at the same time I’ve read a couple of other Golden Age crime novels, Murder must advertise, by Dorothy L Sayers and Death of an Airman by … Continue reading
The road from Damascus
A Renault 4 on the desert road between Damascus and Baghdad in 1970 – wikimedia commons When I wrote about Agatha Christie travelling to Iraq, I mentioned how she took an express bus from Damascus to Baghdad. There was no … Continue reading
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Clue or Clew?
A couple of months ago I discovered Agatha Christie. Previous to that I had never actually read a novel by her, partly because I had been put off by the rather prissy, very English, format of a lot of British … Continue reading
The deceased wife’s sister
Up at the Athenaeum, one of the novels I catalogued last Friday was The deceased wife’s sister, an 1874 novel by William Clark Russell. When first published to novel was controversial and published anonymously. In Victorian times, marrying the sister … Continue reading
Found in an old box
I recently shared the following ABC news story to Mastodon: It’s quite an interesting little story about how people opening up an old fireplace found a library book forgotten for 150 years in a box hidden in the fireplace. Kiama, … Continue reading
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Mary Wellstead, telegraphist
Earlier this year, we had a road trip in WA, and the furtherest east we got to was Bremer Bay, at the end of a frayed tarmac road running through scrub for 60km. It was a place so remote it … Continue reading
Too Late…
About a month ago I blogged about that phenomenon of the Victorian postal service, the ‘Too late’ postmark. Well I couldn’t resist, and ended up buying an example for myself from a dealer in Vienna. It’s a prepaid international postcard … Continue reading
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