Historical Climate and Scientific Data Rescue
Pre-industrial climate is written by hand, in the tabular columns of ship logbooks and station registers. Leo transcribes this material while preserving its grids and figures, helping data-rescue teams turn fragile observations into structured, quality-controllable datasets.
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Leo Team · August 6, 2026
How to Write HTR Into a Data Rescue Grant Proposal: Deliverables, Validation, and Cost Lines That Survive Review
How to draft HTR into data rescue grant proposals through observation-counted deliverables, fail-able validation plans, and costed pipeline lines that survive review.
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Leo Team · July 22, 2026
Climate Data Rescue: Recovering the World's Weather from Handwritten Records
Explains the seven-stage climate data rescue pipeline for recovering pre-industrial weather records, focusing on why handwritten transcription is the bottleneck and comparing crowdsourcing, OCR/LLMs, and specialist HTR as solutions.
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