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
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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Gurdjieff and Stalin
George Gurdjieff was a remarkable man. To some he was a mystic and a seeker after truth, to some a charlatan, and perhaps he was something in between. Growing up in Kars, which after the 1877 war between Tsarist Russia … Continue reading
Fieldwork with Agatha…
About a month ago I wrote about my discovery of Agatha Christie’s mystery novels. I won’t bore you with the details, other than to say that I’ve always enjoyed ‘golden age’ novels both for their stories and their portraits of … Continue reading
The train to Iraq
A couple of days ago, after the evening news, we watched a repeat of Michael Palin’s travel documentary where he visits Iraq. In the opening few minutes of the programme, he rides the train through a wintry Turkey to Diyarbakir … Continue reading
A Too Late postmark…
As is well known, I have a bit of a fascination for postal ephemera from the nineteenth century, and I was highly intrigued by this post from the Derbyshire record office … Definitely in the ‘rather interesting’ category, and something … Continue reading
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