> I have sent out today a box of 11 disks. The first ten are the preliminary > "total" observations, leaving out the early Greco-Roman stuff and the > Greenland stuff. Each disk has a portion of the total in both Dbase III+ > format, and the same data in ASCII format. There are about 75,000 > observations in this group. The next two disks are observations from > Greenland and Iceland. This includes data from Iceland as a separate entity > for the years 1920-1923. There are differences in frequency between these, > run by the Icelanders, and the previous years, when the Danes were > responsible. One disk contains all the data in Dbase III+ format, the other > has all the data in ASCII format. The final disk has the "final" version of > the early data, up to 1499, and files on the locations of the Asian and > Greco-Roman sites. This disk also has a variety of notes and bibliography, > all in Wordperfect 6 format. I have included a small file, Disk.doc, in > ASCII, which gives a very brief description of each file.
Here is the full text of the "Disk.doc" file mentioned above:
DISK.DOC
This file gives a brief description of the various files on this
disk. Unless otherwise noted or in *.DBF format, the files were
created in Wordperfect 6.0.
ABBREV
This gives a list of the abbreviations used in the files, and the
reference to each of these.
BIBLIO
This gives an annotated list of references, many of which have
been the source of data given by Silverman.
PLASIA2.DBF
This file includes the geographical coordinates for Asian sites
for the period prior to 1500 C.E. In this file the sites are
arranged by increasing latitude. The database software used in
Dbase III+. The same site may be listed more than once, since
they may occur in more than one source.
PLASIA2.TXT
This file is the ASCII version of PLASIA2.DBF.
PLASIA2.NTS
This file consists of a series of notes on the database of
PLASIA2.
PLASIA2A.DBF
This file is an alphabetical arrangement of the Asian sites
listed in file PLASIA2.DBF. As in that file the database software
used is Dbase III+.
PLASIA2A.TXT
This is the ASCII version of the alphabetical arrangement of the
Asian sites.
PLCL.DBF
This file includes the geographical coordinates, arranged
alphabetically, of the classical Greco-Roman sites. Stothers
attributions were accepted, and the coordinates were sometimes
given by him, sometimes found by myself. Database software was
Dbase III+
PLCL.TXT
The ASCII version of PLCL.DBF.
PLCL1.DBF
Geographical coordinates of the classical Greco-Roman sites,
arranged in increasing order of latitude. Database software was
Dbase III+.
PLCL1.TXT
The ASCII version of PLCL1.DBF.
PRE15F.DBF
This file is a catalog of auroras for the time interval prior to
1500 C.E. Software is Dbase III+.
PRE15F.TXT
The ASCII version of PRE15F.DBF.
PRE15F.NTS
This file consists of notes to accompany file PRE15F.
SILV.BIB
This file consists of a number of references relating to aurora,
most of which have been used in the smaller compilation of
Silverman.
SILV.MSC
Three miscellaneous notes on aurora papers.
SILV.NTS
This file consists of a number of auroral annotations which were
referred to by Silverman in compiling a short catalog. They
include material not used for one reason or another. Dates go up
to 1692.
SILV1.NTS
A continuation of SILV.NTS, containing annotations from 1704 to
1914.