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Computations
- R-Climdex used by ETCDDI (Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices)
- R-Climdex used by PCIC (Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium)
Data rescue and digitization: tips and tricks resulting from the Dutch experience
Instruction manual for scanning microfiche, from IEDRO
- www.georgeblood.com (audio, video, film media)
- Peer Hechler, WMO; e-mail: phechler@wmo.int (magnetic tapes, old diskettes)
An expert to advise on and assist in data restoration from old electronic media is Chris Muller, email archive.raider@gmail.com
Request for historical weather data to try pattern recogition methods, by the Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Research Lab, University of Salford, UK
Justin Hayes, Data Modelling Lead, wrote on 27 September 2019:
‘Over the past four years we’ve been developing methods to recover, integrate and transform large volumes of historical data from printed tables and forms into structured and operable digital data. We've recently completed a project with the UK Office for National Statistics in which we created a digital version of previously unpublished small area statistics from the UK 1961 Census containing over 15 million values recovered from 140,000 digital images of paper printouts. ONS are due to release this data around the end of 2019. We're now looking to try our methods on other interesting and, ideally, socially beneficial historical data. Historical data on weather/climate seems like a good candidate. Is there someone who I could be put in touch with about this idea?’
For more information please contact Justin Hayes, J.Hayes1@salford.ac.uk
