For those who wonder why digitizing and preserving historical technical data and reports is important, here is an example of how one historical data report is impacting current science @TRAILTechReport
To know how hot oceans were before the mid-20th century, scientists rely on a database with millions of entries on sea temperature made by sailors. But the historical data is full of errors, so researchers set out to make it more reliable.
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