The primary Digital Humanities focus of this website is to promote the transcribing of 19th century ship logs pertaining to weather in certain areas of the world. The purpose of this is to acquire a collection of data regarding weather to spell out a pattern and further progress current climate model forecasts. It will also be used to improve the knowledge of past environmental conditions. The secondary approach is to track specific ship movements throughout the ocean and, through reading and transcribing various logs, tell the stories of those who were on board. According to scientists who work on the “Old Weather” project, they need to understand as much as they possibly can about the weather of the past so as to most accurately predict the weather of the future. It is not a study on whether global warming is real or not, but rather a study on past weather conditions and variability to gain more knowledge to predict future weather. The method is unique and hands-on; the transcriber joins the crew of a ship, the crew being fellow transcribers at a computer and the ship being an actual ship from the 19th century where the logs are coming from. It is a very practical and historical approach, making the act of transcribing seem less tedious because the individual is part of a crew on a “ship” that actually existed and sailed the oceans in the 19th century. This method fits the subject matter because it appropriately balances an enjoyable act of role-playing with important document transcription. Just as the abilities of a ship’s crew increase with more sailors, so does the speed/amount of transcription with more readers. Much of the subject matter is presented in tables and charts, which seems to be the most efficient way to present weather data. In the digital representation, the charts are mimicked and are obviously easier to read.