Data-PASS Punched Card Data Recovery

One goal of the Data-PASS Partnership is to find and preserve potentially "at-risk" data sets for future generations of social science researchers. These data sets can take on many forms and be found on obsolete media including paper tape, punched cards, as well as, magnetic tape and disk. Based on the collaborative efforts of Data-PASS partners and focused on both the physical and logical aspects of recovery, this poster describes and documents efforts to rescue, read, process, and migrate multi-punched card data to modern formats.