Building a Traceable and Sustainable Historical Climate Database: Interdisciplinarity and DRAW.

Slonosky, Victoria; Sieber, Renée · Patterns (N Y) · 2020

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Abstract

Turning historical meteorological observations into usable data is a challenging process that is immeasurably enriched when it encompasses interdisciplinarity. Here, the McGill DRAW (Data Rescue: Archives and Weather) project shows how climatologists, geographers, archivists, data scientists, and coders together built a citizen-science-based transcription platform to transform the McGill Observatory paper records into a traceable and sustainable database.