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
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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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Postcards and the making of an Irish identity
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Irish intellectuals tried to forge an Irish cultural identity distinct from being British by adopting Irish names, the use of the Irish language, and the use of the Gaelic alphabet, as distinct … Continue reading
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A postcard from 1899
An interesting example this, neatly showing a fusing of technologies – a late nineteenth century postcard, dated 25 November 1899, addressed to W H Scott, Engineer, Casterton VIC. As you would expect form the period the postcard is hand addressed … Continue reading
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Staring at shorthand…
Last Friday at the Athenaeum (Friday’s my cataloguing day) one of the items I catalogued was this a copy of ‘Psalms and Hymns’ published by James Nesbit and Co. James Nesbit never seem to have put publication dates on the … Continue reading
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Flappers
Clara Bow in 1921 – public domain via wikimedia commons Flappers. Usually when we hear the word flapper we think of young women in the 1920s with bobbed hair, short skirts who smoked, drank gin martinis, and might even have … Continue reading
Sir Frizzle Pumpkin…
Up at the Athenaeum, one of the books I catalogued last Friday was Sir Frizzle Pumpkin, by James White. Knowing nothing about the book, I simply assumed it was an early Victorian children’s story – a sort of Alice in … Continue reading
Postcards and encryption (again)
I’ve written before about how nineteenth century people sometimes obfuscated the text on postcards to hide a message from prying eyes, be it the maid servant, the postie or a family member. I’ve just come across this nice example from … Continue reading
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An odd moment on the Walpole river …
There we were, in the middle of the Walpole river in the far south west of WA, when suddenly the eco tour guide mentioned Tolstoy and the Brotherhood church. Utterly surreal. Over the last year or so I’ve been researching … Continue reading
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The man who might have been king…
I’m about half way through ‘If you’re reading this, I’m already dead’, a novel very loosely based on Otto Witte, the acrobat who aspired to become King of Albania in the chaos of Albania’s independence after the Balkan Wars that … Continue reading
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