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
And where was Sebastapol?
One of the things which I found when researching the Catherine Morton story was that a lot of places had changed their names, and some places which existed didn’t exist anymore. About what you’d expect. Sometimes it’s obvious where they … Continue reading
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Catherine Morton and the scandalous affair at Beechworth
In a previous post, I recounted the story of the attempted rape of Catherine Morton. It’s an interesting story and I felt that I should document my sources I found the story online at in the Tasmanian Daily News of … Continue reading
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Mr Rochlitz continued ….
Back at the end of 2016 I blogged about Mr Rochlitz, who was involved in the laying out of the Botanic gardens in Beechworth in 1861. At the time I assumed that he had become involved through his scientific background … Continue reading
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Bottles, pills and potions
Currently on the project I’m documenting a whole pile of medicines form the 1950’s and 60’s – mostly but not exclusively medications in tubes and creams, something that simply doesn’t exist in the pre-war items. Now it’s all a bit … Continue reading
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Digitised newspapers and happenstance
A few days ago J showed me a photograph of beechworth from the early 1990’s that one of her Art Society friends had come across. Nothing unusual, but the photograph was from the New York Times, which did seem a … Continue reading
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Robert Burns Clow again
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the fun I had unravelling the garbled story I had heard in Kuching about the death of Robin Burns Clow. Firstly, I’ll own up to making one mistake, the Anti Piracy expedition … Continue reading
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Warts and panic …
This is a more personal blog post than usual. Being an introvert by inclination I’m not one for sharing details of my life online. My interests and enthusiasms? yes! Personal stuff? Definitely not. However I’ve thought about this, and I … Continue reading
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Princess Alexandra in Alexandra no less
The little town of Alexandra in Victoria was not always called Alexandra. Originally it was called Red Gate, but some time after gold was found in the 1860’s it was renamed after Alexandra of Denmark, the wife of Bertie (later … Continue reading
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The Mohyu lockup
Yesterday was J’s birthday, and still in celebratory mode we decided that as today was a nice bright cold day, we’d drive over to Mansfield, stopping off at Harry Power’s lookout for a bit of a walk. Well, when we … Continue reading
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Unravelling the death of Robert Burns Clow
If you’ve been following this blog avidly, or indeed languidly, you’ll be aware that we spent most of May in Malaysia, and in fact we spent almost all of our time there in Kuching in Sarawak and in Sabah Sarawak … Continue reading
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