Description
Freeze and thaw dates for 83 lakes, recorded by volunteers and later entered by hand.
Provenance
Transferred from the backlog of unread media at a partner archive. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. All files were recovered; 56 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
fd103cf4dbd9bbb2520ab8c42a9241bd5e840842da5f40e6216b5932da7bff05- Last verified
- Sep 18, 2026, by Vigil
- Migrated to
- CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
Reading-room copies are migrated to CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.
Cite as: Eastern Shore Lakes Survey, Lake ice records, Eastern Shore, 1987–1995 (1987–1995). Lazarus Archive, LZ-11593.