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
Tag Archives: writing
The disappearance of the long s from handwriting
The long s (ſ) and its disappearance from handwriting is a bit of a mystery to me. Printers had more or less abandoned its use at the beginning of the nineteenth century, although it continued to continued to be used … Continue reading
Letter cards
Over the past year or so I’ve developed a slow burn fascination with late Victorian and Edwardian postcards. I don’t simply collect them, when I get a new one I try my hand at transcribing the card and trying to … Continue reading
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
Writing in the nineteenth century
The combination of the penny post and increasing literacy meant that people in the nineteenth century wrote a lot. We are not talking about the good and the great, but about ordinary people writing ordinary letters commiserating a cousin for … Continue reading
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