Canopy Data and Applications Rescue Effort

These materials document a 'data rescue' effort undertaken as a collaboration between the leaders of the original research projects, students and staff at TESC, and the SEAD DataNet project. This effort involved gathering and organizing the existing materials, and a significant effort to annotate materials to enhance reusability. The effort's scope included preserving the projects' web documentation, image archive, software products (executable and source) including a database generation tool and visualization software, paper publications, and the field study data recorded using databases generated using the projects' database generator tool. In addition to preserving the original database files, the rescue effort converted all databases into a standard format (Software Independent Archiving of Relational Databases, http://www.eark-project.com/resources/specificationdocs/32-specification-for-siard-format-v20) and experimented with capturing a full virtual machine to provide a general mechanism to support live queries of the databases in the future. The included poster from the 2015 AGU conference describes the early parts of the effort. Our team wishes in particular to acknowledge the contributions of Michelle Wallace and Sharon McIntee, who had the primary responsibility for assembling materials, organizing them in SEAD, adding formal and informal (tag) annotations, and generating the SIARD and Virtual Machine forms of the databases.