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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Well that’s three years of my life then ….
Suddenly, in the weird way that projects finish, the project I’ve spent three years on is done. Actually it’s not done, the final reports need to be formally accepted, and the final invoices issued, but it’s over. No more documentation, … Continue reading
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Buying books
A long time ago, I did a simple analysis of the cost of buying books in Canberra versus buying them online – either as secondhand or new. Since then I’ve moved over almost exclusively to the Kindle for my recreational … Continue reading
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Romans, poo and toilets
A few weeks ago we had the Roman toilet paper meme and the use, or not, of pessoi. That seemed to have died down until a recent post by Caroline Lawrence set it going again. Well I’m not an expert … Continue reading
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Structuring your day as a key to productivity
Withdrawing from social media is a meme of our times about which I’ve written a couple or three times. The fact is that while I’m far from anti-social, I do relish moments of disconnection. These gaps pour destresser where on … Continue reading
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Dialup memories
April 30 marked the twentieth anniversary of CERN making the world wide web and its protocols public domain. What’s often forgotten now is that the web was only one of the protocols around, there were alternatives, such as gopher, that … Continue reading
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Tagged CERN, Communications protocol, Dial-up Internet access, dialup, gopher, internet, MicroVax, Networking, Servers, Unix
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Calorie restriction and the San diet
I have a paunch. Not a big one, but a definite paunch. To add to it my blood pressure and cholesterol are a little higher than they should be for a man of my age. In fact that’s part of … Continue reading
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Foxes in Victoria
I’ve previously written about urban foxes in Canberra, and it comes as no surprise to find that foxes (both urban and rural) are pretty common in Victoria. Las week when we were driving from Daylesford to Queenscliff we were treated … Continue reading
Driving to Daylesford
A long and unseasonably warm drive down the freeway to Victoria. We started just after seven and broke for a coffee at the bakery in Holbrook sometime after 10.30. The drive down had been uneventful though a dry yellowing autumn … Continue reading
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Padaek, garum and nam pla
One of the infuriating things about the Romans is that they didn’t do documentation, or if they did, an early medieval monk didn’t find it titillating enough, and used it to light the fire or worse. In very crude terms … Continue reading
Orwell and Pyongyang
Orwellian. Anyone watching the pictures from North Korea must be immediately reminded of George Orwell’s 1984, with the chanting hate sessions and the screaming rhetoric. Orwell is of course for ever linked with 1984 and Animal Farm, both of which … Continue reading
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