Hi I suspect it would indeed work. The database would not need to be very fancy.
Bob On Jan 9, 2011, at 12:27 PM, scmcgr...@gmail.com wrote: > Have you thought of using RRD (Round Robin Database). > > RRD is a CSV format which stores value vs time and is generally used for > archiving network performance data which is generally kept for years. This > format has the advantage of compactness and arbitrary x y scaling. > > MRTG (Multi-Router Traffic Grapher) is probably the best known application > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Camp <li...@rtty.us> > Sender: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com > Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 12:15:30 > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement<time-nuts@febo.com> > Reply-To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > <time-nuts@febo.com> > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Archiving Timing Data > > Hi > > I'm sitting here running data on a bunch of TBolts and the like. Might that > data be useful to others - maybe. Could it be useful 100 years from not - > doubtful. I have the ability to create enormous amounts of likely useless > trivia. To me the burring the useful nugget in the mountain of trivia is the > bigger issue. It's the librarian, not the library that we need more than > ever. > > Without a process for cataloging, indexing, and retrieving data - it's as > good as lost. Finding and identifying data from a year or two back - forget > it. Storage / duplication is (as mentioned in another post) is cheap and > easy. Indexing and cataloging is what makes sure the stuff is retained and > useful. > > Yes I will eventually get to the point .... > > I doubt very much I'm the only one taking a mountain of timing data and not > properly cataloging it. My guess is that maybe > 90% of the list members are > in the same boat. How about: > > 1) A set of not to restrictive data format standards (CSV with a few > restrictions ...) > 2) A simple / brief method of identifying that data (likely fancier than a > text file) > 3) A list repository to stuff it away in and retrieve it from. > 4) A (to be written) database app to let you rummage around and find things > > There are a number of *very* nice software programs out there that a lot of > us use. Ideally the "magic standard" format would eventually wok (at least > for export) from all of them. > > Bob > > On Jan 7, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Perry Sandeen wrote: > >> List, >> >> I apologize in advance for my long posting >> >> Several weeks ago I posted what were my attempts to save data and my >> school-of hard-knocks learning curve. Unfortunately several posters just >> had to nit-pick the process I had used and started a long series of posts >> and counter-posts about the process while totally missing the message. So >> I’m going to walk through this again hopefully for the edification of the >> majority. >> >> Just several days ago a 10 year old Canadian girl discovered a super-nova >> while studying photographic images. Observations by the world’s two most >> powerful earth based telescopes confirmed here discovery. >> >> Now consider the case of the Antikythera mechanism. It was close to 2,000 >> years ahead of what was eventually developed in Europe. Most likely we >> never knew about it was that the library in Alexandria Egypt was joyfully >> burned three times by religious idiots [see Wikipedia]. >> >> This mechanism was so complicated and accurate that as least passing >> knowledge, if not some or all of its drawings, would have been there. In >> context to the science of that time, it ranked up with what the Hubble >> telescope accomplished for science today. >> >> Which brings us here to today. >> >> Governments and private businesses are storing millions of tons of written >> documents in the evacuated chambers of salt mines of the world [see >> Wikipedia]. This does beg the question of where the inventory lists are >> stored. The reason for this is that no other archival grade of mass storage >> really exists. The last method that I’m aware of is black & white polyester >> microfilm which is rated at 500 years. With the almost total transition to >> digital cameras, there is no financial incentive to produce the necessary >> film stock to continue that process. >> >> NASA has lost large amounts of acquired data as no equipment now exists to >> read the information. >> >> Current CD/ DVD media is no solution. A 2004 report published in the >> Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology >> entitled "Stability Comparison of Recordable Optical Discs-A Study of Error >> Rates in Harsh Conditions." You can read it yourself at >> http://nvl-p.nist.gov/pub/nistpubs/jres/109/5/j95sla.pdf. >> >> Until someone invents a stabilized glass DVD and perhaps a holographic laser >> beam to create the needed pits W/O chemicals (embedded gold maybe?) archival >> data storage W/O paper is a crap-shoot. >> >> So where am I going with all this? Glad you asked. >> >> No one knows if their or others data will lead to a new discovery or >> process. Da Vinci certainly didn’t. It can however; lead to learning that >> can then can be taken to the next level of knowledge and invention. >> >> Words cannot express my gratefulness to those who have taken the >> considerable effort and expense to post science information and support >> technical lists such as this on the net as well as the posters who have >> kindly shared their knowledge with us. >> >> I just hope it doesn’t get lost. >> >> End of Rant. I now get off my soapbox and return you to your normal >> programming. >> >> Regards, >> >> Perrier >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
