Some of the work requires
digitising records from last century — manual data entry from paper - based records to electronic databases.
An additional point on available
digitised records relates to the discoverability of disparate historical records.
Digitised records for the whole country date back to 1910 and data for the Central England Temperature record dates back to 1654 - the world's longest instrumental record.
Not exact matches
This has traditionally been a paper - intensive process but it is possible to use blockchain technology to
digitise and authenticate the
records.
As Trov grows, Gemmell envisions allowing users to
digitise their car's service
record, for example.
Information from newly -
digitised old instrumental
records in the early 19th Century such as shipping
records for the East India Company (Brohan et al, 2012), doesn't support the largest modelled responses to Tambora (1815), but does suggest a response larger and more defined than that seen in some reconstructions.
The authors painstakingly
digitised older archived data (back to before 1800 in one case), worked out the conventions that were used, and with a knowledge of present day climate, pieced together series and spotted potential shifts in observing location or time of day that would otherwise contaminate the
record.
People don't appreciate what an enormous effort has been required to simply
digitise the temperature
record that we have.
The Bureau's climate data experts have carefully analysed the
digitised data to create a consistent — or homogeneous —
record of daily temperatures over the last 100 years.
Observational climate datasets are regularly updated to include newly
digitised historical paper
records and improved analysis techniques.
Most of this information is
recorded on paper files held by the Bureau of Meteorology and National Archives and has not been
digitised.
Approximately 15 ACORN - SAT locations may have paper
records of daily temperature data available but which are yet to be
digitised.
The dataset employs the latest analysis techniques and takes advantage of
digitised observational data to provide a daily
record of Australian temperatures over the last 100 years.
The 1906 Eversleigh Fahrenheit temperature
recordings have been
digitised (Excel 49kb) and this field book is typical of whole degree rounding proportions at most Australian weather stations in the Fahrenheit era.
As part of the Early Weather Data research stream, scientists worked to
digitise and extend some of southeastern Australia's key meteorological
records held by the Bureau of Meteorology, National and State Archives and a range of pre-Federation observatories and historical societies.
The task of
digitising daily
records is ongoing (Figure 1) with many daily observations only available in paper form.
The project tries to
digitise existing complex and manual practices (eg doctors» access to medical
records) or legislation;
Records digitised by Stampery will now be kept not only in the bitcoin blockchain but in the Ethereum ledger as well, which, according to the company, makes settlement «faster and even more secure.»