Blog

Field notes and platform updates.

Articles about cave data, the technology behind The KEEP, and the caving community.

Articles coming soon.

Education March 2026

Why Cave Data Gets Lost — And How to Stop It Coming soon

A look at how decades of survey data vanishes when cavers retire, grottos dissolve, or hosting bills go unpaid — and what a permanent archive actually needs to survive.

Platform March 2026

Building a Trust System for Sensitive Karst Data Coming soon

How we designed the five-tier permission model, why geographic access zones beat rigid state boundaries, and the tradeoffs between openness and protection.

Technology April 2026

How the Extraction Engine Reads a 1987 Trip Report Coming soon

The hybrid pipeline that extracts cave names, depths, and coordinates from scanned PDFs — what it gets right, what it misses, and how community validation closes the gap.