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
Ethel Voynich
If you’ve been following my blogs you’ll know that I have an interest in both the role of the Okhrana, the tsarist secret police, in penetrating groups of anti tsarist dissident living in London, and also the attempts by the … Continue reading
Adelaide to Port Lincoln 1877
As I’ve said elsewhere, I’m no way a serious collector of nineteenth century postal ephemera, but I will admit to buying the occasional item now and then. My most recent purchase was inspired by our recent trip to Port Lincoln … Continue reading
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The time before the internet …
While we were away in South Australia, I took a couple of paperbacks with me to read, rather than an e-reader. J likes to sit and sketch, and in the bright sun of a South Australian autumn an e-ink screen … Continue reading
An autumn road trip …
We’ve had ourselves a road trip out west, as far west as Port Lincoln in South Australia. It was really just a little vacation, but we had ourselves a good time and visited some interesting places along the way. We … Continue reading
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The Galloway Hoard – in Adelaide
By pure chance, we were in Adelaide at the same time of as the Galloway Hoard exhibition at the South Australian Museum. The Galloway Hoard is a collection of hack silver and other pillaged objects that probably came from the … Continue reading
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Colonial era post box in Glenelg SA
A nice example of a preserved colonial era pillar box in Glenelg. The box is outside the library, not far from where the tram line ends in Moseley Square. while obviously well loved by the local dogs it is a … Continue reading
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Goolwa morgue
We were in South Australia for a few days and found ourselves in Goolwa, which is nowadays a pleasant seaside town full of beach side cafes and old stone buildings, but historically was a working port at the mouth of … Continue reading
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Spending a little more time with Katherine Scragg
I’ve been spending a little more time on Katherine Scragg. (And her name was Katherine not Catherine, despite the newspaper reports to the contrary) I finally ran to ground a newspaper transcript of her deposition, which I won’t reproduce as … Continue reading
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Ladies only compartments
Predictably, assaults such as the case of Fanny Elizabeth Bull and Catherine Scragg led to bursts of moral outrage in the newspapers of the time and calls for the railway companies to provide Ladies Only compartments on their trains. While … Continue reading
Muybridge and hip-baths
Eadweard Muybridge was undoubtedly a most peculiar man, but his huge collection of photographs of naked people doing quite simple things has proved an invaluable resource for studies of human locomotion. His images also help give us an idea of … Continue reading
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