ResearchBuzz: FirehoseUS Department of Justice: Two Virginia Men Arrested for Conspiring to Destroy Government Databases. “According to court documents, brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, both 34, of Alexandria, Virginia, were indicted on Nov. 13 for conspiring to delete databases used to store U.S. government information. Both men were federal contractors.”
ResearchGate: Human-in-the-loop tabular data extraction methods for historical climate data rescue. “…we propose a human-in-the-loop workflow with benchmarks of open- and closed-source methods for extracting and processing handwritten tabular data. We explain through the case of climatological data from the Congo region (1907–1960) how HIL workflows can be implemented and their trade-offs […]
was B (this is my old account)Semi-related, also been thinking about #EndangeredData and datasets that may disappear if no one actively works to preserve them and what factors one might consider to identify such datasets.
Feels like something folks at the #InternetArchive might have thought about...
use @#OpenScience #OpenData #Library folks. This is #EndangeredData week, where we highlight the importance of public records in free and civil society. Here's a brilliant blog post by Sarah Bond: https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/04/19/saving-endangered-data-from-ancient-rome-to-trumps-america/