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Ars Technica: Cambridge mapping project solves a medieval murder. “It’s easy to lose oneself down the rabbit hole of medieval murder for hours, filtering the killings by year, choice of weapon, and location. Think of it as a kind of 14th-century version of Clue: It was the noblewoman’s hired assassins armed with daggers in the streets of Cheapside near St. Paul’s Cathedral. And that’s just […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/08/ars-technica-cambridge-mapping-project-solves-a-medieval-murder/

University of Michigan: World’s natural history collections ready to aid in pandemic preparedness. “In 2024, the scientists gathered to analyze how to tap natural history collections and bring together research from across disciplines to help the world prepare for a potential future pandemic—something researchers say is likely because of climate change and human encroachment on wildlife […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/05/university-of-michigan-worlds-natural-history-collections-ready-to-aid-in-pandemic-preparedness/

The Conversation: How remembering railway accidents from 100 years ago can make the industry safer today. “The Railway Work, Life & Death project has added nearly 70,000 cases of worker accidents in England and Wales to its database of staff accidents from before 1939. Until now the records have been available only in hard copy. But digital access via the project website will mean insights […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/05/the-conversation-how-remembering-railway-accidents-from-100-years-ago-can-make-the-industry-safer-today/

📯 How can historians develop crucial data competencies? In our next #DigitalHistoryOFK, Ursula Lehmkuhl discusses "Building Data Competencies for Historians" from the @NFDI4Memory program.

🔍 Digital historical method
📊 Research data management
🌐 Digital area histories
🧰 Training resources

📅 Wed, May 21, 2025, 4:15-5:45pm CET
ℹ️ Abstract: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/9490

#DigitalHistory #4memory #FAIR #HistoricalData

@historikerinnen histodons@a.gup.pe

The Record: Attack claimed by pro-Ukraine hackers reportedly erases a third of Russian court case archive. “The attack was claimed by the pro-Ukraine hacking group BO Team, which has previously collaborated with Ukrainian military intelligence in operations against Russian entities. Ukrainian authorities have not publicly confirmed any official military intelligence participation in this […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/16/the-record-attack-claimed-by-pro-ukraine-hackers-reportedly-erases-a-third-of-russian-court-case-archive/

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 […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/14/researchgate-human-in-the-loop-tabular-data-extraction-methods-for-historical-climate-data-rescue/

#HistoricalData

[5 inch hail confirmed]

Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
528 PM CDT Tue Apr 29 2025

The National Weather Service in Lubbock Texas has issued a

*Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...

Eastern Kent County...

Southeastern Dickens County...

King County...

Stonewall County...

*Until 630 PM CDT.

HAZARD...Softball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.

IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be severely injured.

Colorado State University: What are milky seas? Centuries-old ship logs, diaries may help solve this maritime mystery. “Milky seas can often cover hundreds of miles. But they are also currently impossible to predict — therefore, nearly impossible to study. That’s why [Justin] Hudson has created a global database of milky sea events based on 400 years of historical documents, including […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/11/colorado-state-university-what-are-milky-seas-centuries-old-ship-logs-diaries-may-help-solve-this-maritime-mystery/

University of St Andrews: Nessie loves a sunny summer’s day – how anecdotes become data. “New research from the University of St Andrews has used a database of Loch Ness Monster reports to translate anecdotes into data, shedding light on statistical biases and the important of defining the right information for analysis. While anecdotes are often dismissed in scientific research this […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/university-of-st-andrews-nessie-loves-a-sunny-summers-day-how-anecdotes-become-data/

Dartmouth College: Fifty Years of Songbird Maps Take Flight in New Hands. “The parchment-thin maps were the work of Richard Holmes, now an emeritus professor of biological sciences, who for more than 50 years led students into the forest for several weeks at the peak of spring breeding season to document the territorial boundaries of songbirds by listening for their distinctive songs…. […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/07/dartmouth-college-fifty-years-of-songbird-maps-take-flight-in-new-hands/

University of Maryland: Database Co-produced by UMD Undergrad Is First to Document Tornadoes Worldwide. “The world’s oldest documented tornado likely occurred in Sardinia in 200 AD. What’s probably the northernmost recorded twister hit Norway in 2005, a rare occurrence in the Arctic Circle. … Those are among the facts detailed in a first-of-its-kind archive built by a research team […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/06/university-of-maryland-database-co-produced-by-umd-undergrad-is-first-to-document-tornadoes-worldwide/

AI isn’t very good at history, new paper finds.
Maria del Rio-Chanona, one of the paper’s co-authors said "it’s likely because LLMs tend to extrapolate from historical data that is very prominent, finding it difficult to retrieve more obscure historical knowledge."
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/19/ai-isnt-very-good-at-history-new-paper-finds/
#History #Historians #AiResearch #HistoricalData

Global Groundwater Depletion Is Accelerating But Is Not Inevitable, Say Researchers
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https://phys.org/news/2024-01-global-groundwater-depletion-inevitable.html <-- shared technical article
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https://youtu.be/Hv5tlyKEoXU?si=sovXv2kSQFdN3AtO <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #water #hydrology #groundwater #waterresources #watermanagement #management #global #depletion #pumping #overpumping #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #waterlevel #literaturesearch #database #records #aquifer #subsurface #climatechange #subsidence #arid #farming #agriculture #irrigation #wateruse #watersecurity #historicaldata #statistics #geostatistics

maps - Twenty-first century groundwater-level trends in globally distributed monitoring wells

maps and charts - Comparison of aquifer-scale trends in depth to groundwater during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries

maps - Twenty-first century trends in depth to groundwater in 1,693 globally distributed aquifer systems

photo - drilling a groundwater well in an orchard

In the talk of @cameron ! So excited to know that the official appointment data of #Qing #China (Jinshenlu) will extend its release between 1760-1799 in this year! #History #historicaldata

📊 1/5: The Value of Historical Charts
Keeping old charts of previous market leaders can be a gold mine of information. These charts offer insights into patterns and behaviors that repeat across market cycles, providing a roadmap for current investments. #StockMarket #HistoricalData

#HistoricalData:
Earth has more trees than it did 35 years ago - but there’s a huge catch
Aug 30, 2018: "Earth has more trees than it did 35 years ago - but there’s a huge catch | World Economic Forum."
Johnny Wood
Writer, Forum Agenda
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/08/planet-earth-has-more-trees-than-it-did-35-years-ago/