Lazarus Archive · LZ-38700

Insect light-trap survey, Three Rivers, 2009–2014

Three Rivers Natural History Society, 2009–2014. Research data for IBM mainframes.

Description

Nightly counts of moths and other insects from light traps run by volunteers, one of the longest such records in the region.

Provenance

Transferred from the backlog of unread media at a partner archive. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
8eb6348427af9d51f7cfbeed2f418445e86e193d6e0e1c047573e51ff71f1f26
Last verified
Oct 25, 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: Three Rivers Natural History Society, Insect light-trap survey, Three Rivers, 2009–2014 (2009–2014). Lazarus Archive, LZ-38700.

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