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Re:Help Recover Climate Data from Old Ship Logs by Symbiote on Monday January 22, 2018 @02:25AM (#16202518)
There are many other similar projects, which may be of more or less interest / difficulty than the ships logs.

https://www.zooniverse.org/

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Re:Help Recover Climate Data from Old Ship Logs by zzleeper on Sunday January 21, 2018 @09:14PM (#16201436)
Wow, this is quite hard.. a tutorial on how to read these logs would also be useful, specially to get the handwriting.
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Re:Help Recover Climate Data from Old Ship Logs by my_first_acct on Sunday January 21, 2018 @10:26PM (#16201656)
This forum post gives a flavor of what may be involved: http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=4421.0
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Re:Help Recover Climate Data from Old Ship Logs by RonInDune on Sunday January 21, 2018 @10:47PM (#16201750)
That ship in their example,the Seneca (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., has a super interesting history: https://archive.org/details/logbookofsenecab00unse
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Re:Help Recover Climate Data from Old Ship Logs by no29 on Sunday January 21, 2018 @09:31PM (#16201489)
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?

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Re:Help Recover Climate Data from Old Ship Logs by ateesdalejr on Sunday January 21, 2018 @11:05PM (#16201839)
> what kind of scandalous mysteries are in that tutorial that require hiding it behind a login?

That's how you gather analytics. :)

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Re:Help Recover Climate Data from Old Ship Logs by neuromantik8086 on Monday January 22, 2018 @12:23PM (#16206092)
Spencerian cursive is by far the least easily read script I've ever encountered.
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