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
Family History part iii – conclusions and reflections
I think I’ve come to the end of the road as regards the Mathieson side of my family. Annie, I presume, lived on, but I’ve been unable to find her death record, or a record of a marriage. The most … Continue reading
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Family History part ii
Following from my success of tracking down my great grandfather and great grandmother, I thought I’d do a little more digging to round out my findings. This involved finding my grandfather’s birth record, and also the birth record for Miss … Continue reading
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Family History …
I grew up in a large messy family of aunts uncles and cousins, and while I only had one sibling, I had a whole scad of cousins and we always seemed to be visiting one another. What I didn’t have … Continue reading
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So I thought I’d do a MOOC …
I’ve been doing a lot of reading about the Victorian era on the back of my work documenting Dow’s pharmacy. During that period the world changed immeasurably, with the electric telegraph enabling long distance near instantaneous communication, the railway and … Continue reading
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Pot lids
In the latter half of the nineteenth century items like toothpaste and cosmetics started to be packaged in small ceramic pots. These pots are sought after by collectors of nineteenth century ephemera and good examples go for a couple of … Continue reading
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Open science citizen science and stuff
This is a post that has been knocking round the back of my brain ever since I ended up paying $16.50 to get a thesis from the University of Queensland. First, some terminology: Citizen science This term is used in … Continue reading
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Citizen science and access to libraries
Recently I’ve become interested in the development of natural history in nineteenth century Australia. After all not only was the Victorian era the heyday of natural history, but in Australia it had an importance in people trying to understand how … Continue reading
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A very tangential connection to the Russian Revolution …
Visiting family always seems to involve a boozy dinner with alittle too much red wine, or at least ours do. And as always with coneversations involving a decent red, sometimes they take some slightly odd turns. And so it was … Continue reading
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Opera girls …
We’ve started watching the ITV adaptation of Vanity Fair on BBC First. The lead protagonist, Becky Sharp, is described as the daughter of an ‘opera girl’, a term clearly designed to be redolent of illicit sex and debauchery. It’s the … Continue reading
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Chloroform
One aspect of the Catherine Morton case that puzzled me was just how common was chloroform in colonial Australia. So I did some digging. The key date in the story of chloroform is 1847, the year when Simpson first started using … Continue reading
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