On the thread about volunteer work, @judyasarkof wrote: I also volunteer with our town Natural History Program that is seeking to pull together all biota data for our town - including data downloaded from iNat, ebird, other sources, paper notes tucked under beds, etc. Things that can be lost when …

What is the long term future of our data on iNaturalist?

I would make sure everything goes from iNat to GBIF and any other website possible, it makes chances of data survival bigger than having it all on one server.

When will the big solar flare happen? Nobody can say. It will happen sometime, and it will wipe out not just iNaturalist but all digital everything. Including financial systems, distribution systems, and likely the government. We’re talking societal collapse, martial law if we’re lucky. So I wouldn…

I lived thru the hype around all computers will meltdown at millenial midnight because they can’t 2000.

[image] teellbee: At a family reunion, many of our pics were unavailable to share as they were stored on obsolete media and platforms (V8 movies, floppies, Zip disks, succeeding versions of disks and old hard drives, VHS video, defunct photo storage services, etc.*). Just in case you are unaw…

Oh, yes. We did that. :) it was the stuff on old drives and Zip disks, or defunct hosting services that is a challenge. [image] cammie: Just in case you are unaware, all those things can still be digitized, and you can get prints of the pics as well! So, much of my stuff is digitized, but i…

[image] ellen5: When will the big solar flare happen? Nobody can say. It will happen sometime, and it will wipe out not just iNaturalist but all digital everything. Including financial systems, distribution systems, and likely the government. We’re talking societal collapse, martial law if we’re…

Cape Town is dependent on undersea cables for internet access. They get damaged by fishing trawlers, or seabed movement. Our internet limps along the alternate cables, till the broken one can be mended. Now there are also satellite communications options. https://www.businessinsider.co.za/elon-musk…

Me too. It was the only time I have stayed up until midnight on new years eve. I already knew that nothing had happened in NZ and Australia, but I just wanted to be sure!

I like the Internet Archive - for example, it can be used to store files or save websites (“Wayback machine”).

Where will your data go when you die?

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Where will your data go when you die?

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