Articles about cave data, the technology behind The KEEP, and the caving community.
Articles 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.
How we designed the five-tier permission model, why geographic access zones beat rigid state boundaries, and the tradeoffs between openness and protection.
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.