Help Recover Climate Data from Old Ship Logs

Wow, this is quite hard.. a tutorial on how to read these logs would also be useful, specially to get the handwriting.

i actually wanted to see what one had to do help and wanted to skim a howto... i noticed there's a tutorial link at the top but you have to sign in/up to see what's there.

what kind of scandalous mysteries are in that tutorial that require hiding it behind a login?

ateesdalejr 8y ago ↗

> what kind of scandalous mysteries are in that tutorial that require hiding it behind a login?

That's how you gather analytics. :)

my_first_acct 8y ago ↗

This forum post gives a flavor of what may be involved: http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=4421.0

RonInDune 8y ago ↗

That ship in their example,the Seneca (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., has a super interesting history: https://archive.org/details/logbookofsenecab00unse

neuromantik8086 8y ago ↗

Spencerian cursive is by far the least easily read script I've ever encountered.

[deleted] 8y ago ↗

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Symbiote 8y ago ↗

There are many other similar projects, which may be of more or less interest / difficulty than the ships logs.

https://www.zooniverse.org/

Help Recover Climate Data from Old Ship Logs (oldweather.org)

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