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 stories we tell ourselves
One aspect of life in Australia is the domination of overseas anglophone media. Our bookshops are full of books by overseas authors, our tv of overseas shows, all reviewed in our newspapers, which also recycle work by by overseas reviewers. … Continue reading
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Mark Antony’s Lost Legion
I’ve been rereading Charles Miller’s The Lunatic Express, which is ostensibly a history of the building of what is now the Mombasa Nairobi railway, but is much more than that – essentially a history of the early days of British … Continue reading
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Sergeant Edmund Parry
Quite some time ago, we took a long trip out round by Grenfell to look at some sites associated with the bushranger Ben Hall. Well happenstance is a wonderful thing. Yesterday on our way back from Canberra we stopped in … Continue reading
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ANU Classics Museum …
despite all the years I worked for ANU, I never once visited the Classics Museum. Well, today I did – it’s a nice but small collection of Greek and Roman pottery, some rather nice Roman glass, the inevitable selection of … Continue reading
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Turgenev and the Red Queen
In 1876, Turgenev wrote a poem Croquet in Windsor about the Bulgarian atrocities in which he imagines Queen Victoria watching a croquet game at Windsor in which the balls were the heads of massacred bulgarian christians. A very powerful image, … Continue reading
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Open source genealogy–lessons learned
Well, my little fun exercise chasing John Moncur through Napoleonic era naval lists and so on has shown me that it’s perfectly possible to use open source materials, with two important caveats – firstly, the person investigated has to be … Continue reading
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Open source genealogy
Out of curiosity I thought I’d see what I could find out about John Moncur, who was a Royal Navy Master and Commander at the end of the eighteenth century, and who just possibly might be an ancestor of mine, … Continue reading
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Slavery’s legacy ?
I have a slightly unusual surname, and while I’m not an expert on my family’s history by any means, everything seems to point back to somewhere in the north east of Scotland as a point of origin, and in the … Continue reading
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New year 2017
Well we sat out on the deck, ate prawns and drank champagne while we watched the sun set. Later on we watched a reprise of the Queen 1975 Christmas Eve concert and a doco on the Stones, while the cat … Continue reading
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The price of books in Australia
In Australia, we have a system whereby if a local publisher acquires the rights to a book and publishes an Australian edition, distributors are barred from selling overseas editions, except as remainders or as second hand books. This is supposed … Continue reading
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