[Bessig] SIParCS student internship opportunity with CISL Data Engineering and Curation Section

[Douglas Schuster]

Dear BESSIG group,

Please pass this along to any students or research groups with students who
may find this to be of interest.

*Job Overview:*

*Building a Historical Data Image Archive to Support Climate Research and
Retrospective Research of Hand-Written Documents*

Areas of Interest:

   - Digital Asset Management

Job Description:

   - It is estimated that more than 50% of the pre-1960 ocean and
   atmosphere observed data are not in digital form.  These logbooks from
   ships and land observation stations hold valuable numerical data dating
   back two centuries and more.  The process to make these data accessible for
   climate and weather research has two major steps, first photographic images
   are made from the paper pages, and second the numerical data are key
   entered by individuals through citizen science efforts and dedicated
   professionals.
   - This project addresses the preservation and access to the images, or
   documents as they are called in the library sciences, for the purposes of
   validating information coming out of the key entry process and for the rich
   textual comments that add information about historical weather and life
   events over time.  We will research the underlying technologies available
   to design, and build a prototype repository containing the digital
   images/documents, catalog them, and provide user access to review and copy
   them. Project will be appropriately scaled with applicant
   strengths/educational background.


https://ucar.silkroad.com/epostings/index.cfm?fuseaction=app.jobInfo&version=1&jobid=218492

Thanks,
Doug

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Doug Schuster
schuster at ucar.edu
303-497-1216
ORCID:   0000-0003-0448-3591
NCAR/CISL Research Data Archive
https://rda.ucar.edu
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