A tip off via @geographicalmag
OLD WEATHER is an intriguing project which is asking people to participate in the decoding of old documents to collate information relating to weather patterns, to help with studies into future climates.
A range of organisations are involved in the project.
Sign up for the project, and you will see a scanned page from the logbook of a voyage made by a ship some time in the past.
A tutorial page with a number of videos has been provided.
At the time of writing this blog post, the ship being followed is the HMS Fantome, which is moored at Hobart, but is apparently going to head off into the Pacific...
I like the incentive to add more data in the form of a 'rating' so that you start off as a cadet, but can be promoted to Lieutenant if you enter at least 30 weather readings... Working towards that at the moment...
Will let you know where the Fantome heads off to as move into 1914...
Might make a good class project...
Featured this in my SAGT Literacy seminar on Saturday - see my earlier SAGT blog post(s)
A range of organisations are involved in the project.
Sign up for the project, and you will see a scanned page from the logbook of a voyage made by a ship some time in the past.
A tutorial page with a number of videos has been provided.
At the time of writing this blog post, the ship being followed is the HMS Fantome, which is moored at Hobart, but is apparently going to head off into the Pacific...
I like the incentive to add more data in the form of a 'rating' so that you start off as a cadet, but can be promoted to Lieutenant if you enter at least 30 weather readings... Working towards that at the moment...
Might make a good class project...
Featured this in my SAGT Literacy seminar on Saturday - see my earlier SAGT blog post(s)
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