Nature News: Venice ‘time machine’ project suspended amid data row

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03240-w

Disagreements among international partners leave plans to digitize the Italian city’s history in limbo.

Two key partners have suspended the Venice Time Machine project after reaching an impasse over issues surrounding open data and methodology. The State Archive of Venice and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) say they have had to pause data collection, and the archive’s director has raised questions about the usability of the 8 terabytes of information that have already been collected.

Photographs from the 1930 become vital data for climate research

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180,000 forgotten photos reveal the future of Greenland’s ice

To tell whether the island’s glacial cap will melt away any time soon, researchers are poring over old pictures and drawings for clues to its past behaviour.

Quirin Schiermeier
27 July 2016


“The instantaneous record contained in the air and terrestrial photographs of the present state of the glaciers of the entire coast is in itself of great value for future researchers,” the Danish captain Carl Gabel-Jørgensen wrote in a 1935 report.

Australian National Insect Collection at CSIRO in Canberra to be digitised

Researchers at the CSIRO in Canberra are preparing to digitise images and data for almost 12.5 million insects.  Simon Checksfield, the digital collections manager for CSIRO's national research collection, said the ambitious project would be welcomed by scientists, bug catchers and school groups around the world

The CSIRO's digital collection will be made publicly available online at the Atlas Of Living Australia

More at: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-01/csiro-collection-of-12.5-million-insects-to-do-digital/6989606