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
Staring at shorthand…
Last Friday at the Athenaeum (Friday’s my cataloguing day) one of the items I catalogued was this a copy of ‘Psalms and Hymns’ published by James Nesbit and Co. James Nesbit never seem to have put publication dates on the … Continue reading
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Flappers
Clara Bow in 1921 – public domain via wikimedia commons Flappers. Usually when we hear the word flapper we think of young women in the 1920s with bobbed hair, short skirts who smoked, drank gin martinis, and might even have … Continue reading
Sir Frizzle Pumpkin…
Up at the Athenaeum, one of the books I catalogued last Friday was Sir Frizzle Pumpkin, by James White. Knowing nothing about the book, I simply assumed it was an early Victorian children’s story – a sort of Alice in … Continue reading
Postcards and encryption (again)
I’ve written before about how nineteenth century people sometimes obfuscated the text on postcards to hide a message from prying eyes, be it the maid servant, the postie or a family member. I’ve just come across this nice example from … Continue reading
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An odd moment on the Walpole river …
There we were, in the middle of the Walpole river in the far south west of WA, when suddenly the eco tour guide mentioned Tolstoy and the Brotherhood church. Utterly surreal. Over the last year or so I’ve been researching … Continue reading
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The man who might have been king…
I’m about half way through ‘If you’re reading this, I’m already dead’, a novel very loosely based on Otto Witte, the acrobat who aspired to become King of Albania in the chaos of Albania’s independence after the Balkan Wars that … Continue reading
Bicycle soldiers
Personally, I’ve always liked bicycles. When I was a lot younger than I am now a bicycle gave me a freedom to explore, as well as providing cheap and reliable transport. And because I’ve always had a soft spot for … Continue reading
Queen Victoria died 125 years ago today
Queen Victoria died 125 years ago today, on 22 January 1901. as memorialised by the Vicar of Ingleton, North Yorkshire, in the parish register Queen Victoria’s reign, was like our own time, a time of great change and innovation with … Continue reading
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More Balkan ephemera…
An Albanian 1 Lek coin from 1931. Albania, in the early part of the twentieth century, had a complex, and at times farcical history. Emerging from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire after the Balkan wars, at first the European … Continue reading
Ursula’s war…
Over the last few days I’ve been reading Ursula Bloom’s memoir of her life as a young woman during the first world war. It’s not history, it’s very much a personal memoir, but on another level it is an important … Continue reading
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