Thanks for the reply! Not sure if you'll see this; had some unexpected delays finishing this comment.
Everything is duly noted; I'll just expand on some bits.
> I joined John Baez and a few other scientists/researchers working on the Azimuth Climate Project, which sought to preserve critical snapshots of climate data in the event of mass defunding. Later on I decided to take this a step further since those snapshots were becoming very out of date and the multifarious data repositories were never very well documented, organized or normalized.
Archive.org is very probably interested in this sort of thing then, FWIW.
> Not sure what you mean by "managing this" though.
Heh :) I was curious what sort of work you do in order for this initiative, which appears(?) to be somewhat of a side project, to be viable in terms of budget and adequate spare time. I'm also interested in storing/working with somewhat large amounts of data too (one project I want to try at some point is implementing an infinite browser cache so I can "Google" the content of every version of every webpage I'd ever visited), so I definitely want to optimize for something that doesn't require much time :) (don't we all)
> It began with reading worrydream's blog post, "What can a technologist do about climate change?" ... Not much more to it than that.
After having read that page I now understand the sentiment of that statement. Major TIL :)
And if only all webpages were that well designed... (The interactivity was a bit of an information overload, but I really liked the layout.)
Everything is duly noted; I'll just expand on some bits.
> I joined John Baez and a few other scientists/researchers working on the Azimuth Climate Project, which sought to preserve critical snapshots of climate data in the event of mass defunding. Later on I decided to take this a step further since those snapshots were becoming very out of date and the multifarious data repositories were never very well documented, organized or normalized.
Archive.org is very probably interested in this sort of thing then, FWIW.
> Not sure what you mean by "managing this" though.
Heh :) I was curious what sort of work you do in order for this initiative, which appears(?) to be somewhat of a side project, to be viable in terms of budget and adequate spare time. I'm also interested in storing/working with somewhat large amounts of data too (one project I want to try at some point is implementing an infinite browser cache so I can "Google" the content of every version of every webpage I'd ever visited), so I definitely want to optimize for something that doesn't require much time :) (don't we all)
> It began with reading worrydream's blog post, "What can a technologist do about climate change?" ... Not much more to it than that.
After having read that page I now understand the sentiment of that statement. Major TIL :)
And if only all webpages were that well designed... (The interactivity was a bit of an information overload, but I really liked the layout.)