#historicaldata — Public Fediverse posts

ZALF: LTE Data Rescue Success: 25 Years of Data Digitized . “Almost 90 years of long-term experiments (LTEs) at the Research Station of Thyrow of the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU) serve as the foundation for a valuable dataset in the BonaRes Repository.”

Gizmodo: SETI Scientists Think Alien Signals Could Be Hiding in Old Telescope Data. “The beauty of Mason and her colleagues’ approach is that it offers a new way to reexamine reams of old data that might already have messages from an alien civilization just waiting for us to hear. From ALMA’s archival data, the team surveyed so-called Band 3 information, with a focus on two high-frequency, […]

University of Pittsburgh: The University Library System is helping to digitize a rare East African archive. “The University of Pittsburgh Library System (ULS) is working with two Kenyan librarians this summer to digitize centuries-old records documenting slavery and emancipation in East Africa.”

Florida State University: FSU researcher creates seawater isotope database to improve climate reconstructions, projections. “A Florida State University paleoclimatologist led the creation of a global database hosting thousands of seawater isotope measurements collected over almost 50 years that will aid scientists in generating more accurate climate reconstructions and predictions.”

Historical Grocery Prices and Shopping Habits of the 1960s

📰 Original title: Vintage photos reveal what grocery shopping looked like in the 1960s

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#gastronomy #groceryshopping #1960sprices #historicaldata

University of Washington: Decades-long dataset shows which orcas are most at home in Puget Sound. “Looking at data from The Whale Museum’s Sightings Archive between 1978 and 2022, University of Washington researchers modeled migratory trends based on observations from researchers, recreational boaters and whale watchers. They found that K and L pods are visiting Puget Sound less often, but […]

The Royal Society: Historic weather data made available to scientists and public, spanning Antarctica to Greenland. “An archive of over 1,600 sets of meteorological, magnetic and tidal observations taken from 1706-1915 from across the globe has been digitised for the first time. The treasure trove of historic weather data and imagery is now available for scientists across the globe to study on […]

McGill University: Digitization of centuries of Canadian weather records promises to improve climate understanding. “Researchers have uncovered and digitized nearly two million 18th and 19th century weather observations from across Canada that offer new insights into how the country’s climate has changed over time. The international project draws on handwritten records dating from 1768 to […]

How #migration became #data: The second #keynote #lecture of our #summeruniversity by Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass (@nghm_uos) explores how #digitaltools shape #migrationresearch, reproducing and transforming categorical orders. He examines #historicaldata like the Osnabrück "Ausländermeldekartei" and scientific publications on #Gastarbeiterkinder, highlighting how categories persist and evolve.

📍 6h-8h | 25.06 | hybrid

https://www.dhi-paris.fr/de/termindetails/how-migration-became-data-how-data-makes-meaning-and-how-reflexive-migration-research-intervenes.html

Scientific Data: Transcribing historical Canadian weather data. “Historical weather journals from across Canada, spanning 1768–1884, have been transcribed from handwritten records into machine readable formats. The NORTHERN (Nineteenth-century Overseas Records Transcribed for Historical Environmental Reconstruction in the North) project transcribed nearly 2 million weather observations from […]

USGS: New AI Tool Forecasts Drought 90 Days Ahead Nationwide. “The USGS River DroughtCast uses machine learning models trained on data from thousands of USGS streamgages, some with more than 100 years of continuous records, to forecast when rivers and streams will drop to abnormally low levels.”

Reuters: Belgian museum, US mining company at odds over colonial-era Congo archive. “A U.S. mining company backed by billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates is in a tangle with Belgium’s AfricaMuseum over who should digitise antique maps of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo ‌in the museum’s archive.”

TechCrunch: Google is using old news reports and AI to predict flash floods. “Google researchers used Gemini — Google’s large language model — to sort through 5 million news articles from around the world, isolating reports of 2.6 million different floods, and turning those reports into a geo-tagged time series dubbed ‘Groundsource.'”

France 24: Researchers turn to UK archive to solve under-50s bowel cancer mystery. “As growing numbers of younger people are being diagnosed with bowel cancer, researchers in the UK are hoping an archive dating back more than 100 years could provide answers. In a study which began in January, researchers are using cutting-edge technology to compare archived tumours with ones from the present […]

Space Daily: Century-old solar records refine future cycle forecasts. “An international team of astronomers has developed a new way to extract solar polar magnetic information from more than a century of historical observations, improving prospects for predicting future solar cycle activity.”

TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875

https://github.com/haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM

#HackerNews #TimeCapsuleLLM #LLM #1800s #AI #research #historicaldata

National Bureau of Economic Research: Effects of WIC on Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Newly Digitized Data from the National Archives. “This paper examines the effect of nutrition—delivered during pregnancy via the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)—on infant health. We contribute to the literature by adding new data on WIC rollout from the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/04/effects-of-wic-on-birth-outcomes-evidence-from-newly-digitized-data-from-the-national-archives-national-bureau-of-economic-research/

Groundwater Level Forecasting In Response To Climate Change Scenarios In Southwestern Saskatchewan Using Wavelet Decomposition And Artificial Neural Networks
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsd.2025.101550 <-- shared paper
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#climatechange #machinelearning #artificialneuralnetworks #sustainablegroundwatermanagement #waveletdecomposition #water #hydrology #groundwater #extremeweather #drought #rainfall #precipitation #AI #forecast #waterresources #pumping #extraction #network #historicaldata #model #modeling #ANN #groundwaterlevel #forecasting #recharge #saskatchewan #canada #watermanagement #strategy #aquifer #GWLs #wells #modelresults #results #sustainability #climate

West Virginia University: Knee Regulatory Research Center Releases Occupational Licensing Law Research Project Database to Study U.S. Licensure in Unprecedented Depth and Detail. “Today, the Knee Regulatory Research Center—a nonpartisan research center focused on labor, health, and regulatory frontiers—announced the release of the Occupational Licensing Law Research Project Database […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/23/west-virginia-university-knee-regulatory-research-center-releases-occupational-licensing-law-research-project-database-to-study-u-s-licensure-in-unprecedented-depth-and-detail/

University of Tennessee: Eighty-five Years of Big Tree History Available in One Place for the First Time. “The curious can now also explore the historical documents of the nation’s biggest trees dating back to the 1940s online, in one place, for the first time. The National Champion Tree Program at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has compiled historical records dating […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/19/university-of-tennessee-eighty-five-years-of-big-tree-history-available-in-one-place-for-the-first-time/

University of Hawaii News: Okinawan songs uncover centuries of climate, geological history. “The lyrics of traditional Okinawan songs were found to record past climate and geological history of the Ryukyu Islands (now called Okinawa Prefecture, Japan), according to a new study by a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Earth scientist and fellow Ryukyuan music practitioners.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/19/university-of-hawaii-okinawan-songs-uncover-centuries-of-climate-geological-history/

Met Éireann: Met Éireann opens historic weather transcription project to all. “The Irish Weather Rescue Project aims to digitise 3.5 million historic rainfall observations from 763 stations across Ireland. Members of the public are invited to transcribe the Rainfall Registers Series that dates from 1864 to 1951 which is held in the National Climate Archive, managed by Met Éireann.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/18/met-eireann-met-eireann-opens-historic-weather-transcription-project-to-all/

Dave’s PostgreSQL Stuff: Loading The Titanic Passenger Data Into PostgreSQL With DBeaver Part 1. “The Sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912 has shocked and entertained for over a century. I will admit to being shocked to find a GitHub Repo with a CSV formatted file with the passenger list. This file is an interesting glimpse into the lives of the folks who sailed on the ill fated ship so long […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/09/daves-postgresql-stuff-loading-the-titanic-passenger-data-into-postgresql-with-dbeaver-part-1/

Nature Reviews Biodiversity: Integrating historical sources for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. “Historical data sources are instrumental in biodiversity research because they provide historical baselines for species and ecosystems, and they reveal information about human–nature relationships and their sustainability (or lack thereof) over long timescales. Yet […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/06/nature-reviews-biodiversity-integrating-historical-sources-for-long-term-ecological-knowledge-and-biodiversity-conservation/

Phys.org: Reports from 65 years of snow and avalanche research now digitized. “Lib4RI has completed the digitization of more than 700 historical snow and avalanche reports from the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF. These reports, published between 1938 and 2005, document decades of avalanche observations and snow research by researchers from Switzerland and around the world.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/22/phys-org-reports-from-65-years-of-snow-and-avalanche-research-now-digitized/

Purdue University: Forts to files, reimagined: MRCC brings historic weather data into the digital age. “The MRCC recently launched a searchable, downloadable archive of 19th-century weather records. Pulled from more than 450 U.S. observation stations, including over 350 that have undergone quality control through NOAA Climate Data Base Modernization (CDMP) funding, the project digitized […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/19/forts-to-files-reimagined-mrcc-brings-historic-weather-data-into-the-digital-age-purdue-university/

Competitive Enterprise Institute: The CAT’s nine lives could be up. “The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals recently vacated a funding proposal for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) largest regulatory program to date. Known as the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT), this system would have created the largest database in federal government history, capable of tracking every stock trade […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/06/competitive-enterprise-institute-the-cats-nine-lives-could-be-up/

Detroit Free Press: Decades of Michigan lake data, hidden in filing cabinets, digitized with volunteer help. “The 78 years of data on 1,300 Michigan lakes are now fully digitized and available to researchers and the public at the University of Michigan’s Deep Blue data repository. Resurrected from file cabinet drawers, the data is now being used to drive new research.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/18/detroit-free-press-decades-of-michigan-lake-data-hidden-in-filing-cabinets-digitized-with-volunteer-help/