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
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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Mechanics Institute, Athenaeum or School of Arts?
I’ve been reading Shirley Barrett’s Rush Oh!, a story about whaling in Eden in the far south east of New South Wales, and an area which I more or less know. When we lived in Canberra, the coast from Pebbly … Continue reading
Discovering Agatha Christie
I have never read a novel by Agatha Christie. Sure, I’ve watched documentaries about her, about her nervous breakdown when she ran away to Harrogate after crashing her car, I’ve read about her experiences working in a hospital pharmacy during … Continue reading
Suffragettes and lipstick
I’ve written before about lipstick and revolution in the context of the Spanish civil war and how, in a famous photograph of Republican milicianas, one of the young women is clearly wearing lipstick. But something I didn’t know, was that … Continue reading
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Hooper’s rule
For the first time in a very long time I thought about Hooper’s Rule, a sort of rule of thumb worked out by the ecologist Max Hooper, as a way to estimate the age of hedges in England and Wales. … Continue reading
What do we really know about cat sociodynamics?
People who know me professionally tend to imagine that I’m a data scientist of some sort, or perhaps an IT person. And that’s sort of true, I did work on digital archiving solutions for AIATSIS and ANU, I did also … Continue reading
A late Queen Victoria post card from Gibraltar
A nice late example of a Queen Victoria post card from Gibraltar. The design is basically a late ‘Empire for the use of’ like this example from Natal We can date the Gibraltar example to probably sometime after 1898 due … Continue reading
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