If you’ve found yourself enjoying your role as a citizen archivist by helping to improve the Historic Cambridge Newspaper Collection then you’ll love Old Weather, too. Old Weather is a joint project between a diverse group of people and institutions from the National Archives (NARA) to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to the Providence Public Library aiming to recover worldwide weather observations to help improve climate model predictions.
Your job is simple: all you do is help transcribe ship logs. Scientists use this data to gather information to help inform climate model predictions. Watch a video tutorial here. Create a user name and password and start transcribing here. Search for ships here. Who knows – you may even find an ancestor among the ships logs!
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