IN53D:
Darth Data: Awaken the Forces to Rescue Old Data for New Discoveries! II

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Session ID#: 17055

Session Description:
Research and discovery in the natural sciences, particularly for documenting longitudinal changes in our planet, is empowered by gathering, mining, and reusing observational data. However, as researchers increasingly realise that much of our 20th Century and older scientific record is no longer accessible and funding for activity in data rescue has steadily increased.

However data cannot be rescued for the sake of the data alone. What are the question or problems that need to be answered with this data? In order to continue to attract funding it is critical that we show tangible value derived from this rescued data.

This session solicits papers from those, who have rescued dark data and ensured its sustainable preservation. Individual case studies are welcome, particularly those that demonstrate new scientific discoveries from the rescued data. Papers on data rescue methodologies will be accepted, especially those that show how tangible value is demonstrated to funders.

Primary Convener:  Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
Conveners:  G Garrett Campbell, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and David W Gallaher, University of Colorado Boulder, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States and Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
OSPA Liaison:  Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Index Terms:

1912 Data management, preservation, rescue [INFORMATICS]
1916 Data and information discovery [INFORMATICS]
1930 Data and information governance [INFORMATICS]
6304 Benefit-cost analysis [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Rescuing Data from International Scientific Assessments: A Case Study (Invited) (123629)
Robert R Downs1, Robert S Chen1 and Xiaoshi Xing2, (1)Columbia University, CIESIN, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)NASA SEDAC, Palisades, United States
Architecture of near-surface magma transport in the Columbia River Flood Basalts as defined by a career’s worth of feeder dike mapping: The legacy dataset of William H. Taubeneck (Invited) (144547)
Leif Karlstrom1, Matthew Connor Morriss2 and Morgan W Nasholds2, (1)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (2)University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States
Tunneling Out of the Darkness: Rescuing Rare Samples and Data from the Geologic Survey of New York City Water Tunnel #3 (186036)
Cody Randel1, Asra Ismail1, Robert Vance Palumbo1, Yue Cai2, Megan Carter Orlando3, Karin A Block4 and Kerstin Lehnert5, (1)CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (2)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (3)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)City College of New York, New York, United States, (5)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
Preserving, Enhancing, and Continuing the Scientific Legacy of the Apollo Sample Suite (135188)
Ryan A Zeigler1, Cynthia A Evans2, Kerstin Lehnert3, Yue Cai4 and Nancy Stella Todd2, (1)NASA Johnson Space Center, Astromaterials Acquisition and Curation Office, Houston, TX, United States, (2)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (4)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
Recovery of Missing Apollo Lunar ALSEP Data (161035)
Patrick T Taylor, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geodesy and Geophysics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Seiichi Nagihara, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States, Yosio Nakamura, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, David Williams, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NSSDCA, Code 690.1, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Walter S. Kiefer, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
Rescue of ESSA Visible Imagery from Film 1966 to 1973: A Resource for Sea Ice Extent and Reanalysis Verification (122299)
G. Garrett Campbell, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Evaluation of analog film temperature data compared to original digital data. (183999)
David W Gallaher, University of Colorado Boulder, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States and G Garrett Campbell, National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States

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