Historical data recovery for multidisciplinary research on Alaska and the Arctic, 1841-1912

This data is focused on the large-scale recovery of Arctic and North Pacific historical environmental data---amounting to millions of individual observations—and making them available for new research, such as extended retrospective analysis (reanalysis) to study a range of lower-frequency climate phenomena and better understand their impact on the Arctic environment. This Excel spreadsheet is a manifest of approximately 22,000 high resolution digital images of selected vessel logbooks that were digitized for the project by Digital Commonwealth and at an imaging station at the New Bedford Whaling Museum (NBWM). The original manuscripts included here are held NBWM, at the Nantucket Historical Association, and at Mystic Seaport Museum. The temporal range of the collection spans 1841 to 1912. Geographic coverage is global, with an emphasis on the North Pacific and Arctic. The information contained in the digitized vessel logbooks includes descriptions of historical weather, sea ice, and other environmental observations of the Arctic, as well as myriad details of life on board whaling vessels in the 19th century. This collection is an extension of the digitizing effort targeting Arctic whaling vessels that began under NPRB 1421, Historical sea ice reconnaissance and interactive mapping project. The dataset archived here is composed of manifest files that describe the digital assets that have been recovered by this project (Digitized_federal_ship_logbook_manifest_201507-201606_NPRB1532.csv and Digitized_whaling_ship_logbook_manifest_201507-201606_NPRB1532.csv). Note that some of the assets described in these data files do not yet have URLs associated with them; the data files will be updated as URLs are available. This dataset was generated under NPRB project 1532.

本数据集聚焦北极与北太平洋历史环境数据的大规模修复工作，累计涵盖数百万条独立观测记录，旨在将这些数据开放以供全新研究使用——例如开展扩展回溯分析（reanalysis，再分析）以研究各类低频气候现象，进而更深入地理解其对北极环境的影响。本Excel表格为一份清单，收录了约22000张高分辨率数字图像，均为经本项目数字化处理的精选船舶日志原稿，由Digital Commonwealth与新贝德福德捕鲸博物馆（New Bedford Whaling Museum, NBWM）的成像站点完成数字化工作。本次收录的原始手稿分别由新贝德福德捕鲸博物馆（New Bedford Whaling Museum, NBWM）、楠塔基特历史协会（Nantucket Historical Association）以及神秘海港博物馆（Mystic Seaport Museum）馆藏。本数据集的时间跨度为1841年至1912年，地理覆盖范围遍及全球，尤其侧重北太平洋与北极区域。数字化船舶日志中包含的信息涵盖北极地区历史气象、海冰及其他环境观测记录，同时还包含19世纪捕鲸船舶上的大量船员生活细节。本数据集是此前NPRB 1421项目「历史海冰侦察与交互式制图项目（Historical sea ice reconnaissance and interactive mapping project）」所启动的北极捕鲸船舶数字化工作的延伸。本页面归档的数据集由若干清单文件组成，用于描述本项目已修复的数字资源，具体包括《Digitized_federal_ship_logbook_manifest_201507-201606_NPRB1532.csv》与《Digitized_whaling_ship_logbook_manifest_201507-201606_NPRB1532.csv》。请注意，部分数据文件中描述的资源目前尚未关联访问URL；待获取有效URL后，将对数据文件进行更新。本数据集由NPRB 1532项目资助生成。