Developing a Flexible Platform for Crowdsourcing Historical Weather Records.
Climatological data exists in historical documents, such as observatory registers, newspapers, ships' logs and private diaries. Using present-day technologies, such as open source repositories and code mashups, and high-resolution digital scanning, software applications can be custom-designed to fac...
| Publicado en: | Historical Methods Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 164 - 178 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul-Sep2019
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