I'll try to be short as possible. Very junior in my career I was basically a data analyst + jack-of-all-IT for the BlahFoo division of my local county's Department of DoingStuff which was an agent for the State Department of DoingStuff.

When I started in 2009 the BlahFoo division had a clerk analog faxing paper inspection forms to the State Department of DoingStuff so they could collect centralized data for the entire state.

Around 2014, after working with a vendor to develop a system to collect this inspection data, hold the data for local use, and also transmit it digitally to the state for their use, the project failed with big ole [reasons on vendor end]. I, as a junior who is good at patching things together to solve a problem, developed my own probably unsustainable and ill though-out solution to collect the data digitally, store it, and digitally xfer the state their copy -- due to being junior in my career. (many lessons learned here)

My patchy solution was successfully enough that data flowed to the state. We weren't the first county doing this by any means. At least one other county had a real system built in mid-2010's tech to do this. But we achieved what the state and us at the county level were trying to do well before the majority of other 50+ counties did.

2 years later I leave this job for greener pastures.

Fast-forward 10 more years and 3 more jobs and I google my '[firstname lastname], [major city]'. It ends up that on the official state website has a section of downloadable dataset of GIS data and other data. In this area it publishes a section of searchable and downloadable datasets of activity from BlahFoo divisions of local county departments of DoingStuff.

This dataset appears to have current data as of yesterday flowing into it from all counties in this state. I am the 'dataset owner' even though I only worked for one county 10 years ago. I don't recall ever creating a state dataset and it wasn't a 'thing' to do. We just sent our data analog fax or probably weekly SFTP to the state in their existing system at the time was.

I did not create anything new statewide, only at the county level. Anything the state created and attributed to me as a data owner was on the state and unbeknownst to me at the time.

One compounding factor is that my SO still works for this county, didn't work in this department when I was there and since I've left does now work for this department. She's the health insurance provider for my family. As well as I am paid working outside of this local county government, my SO's health insurance cannot be matched or beaten by private employers and we also need her retirement pension as part of our goals.

My questions, or I guess options as I see them are should I:

• Inform the appropriate part of the state and move on?

• Do nothing and forget it?

• Do nothing, but if another resume for new job is needed, as one bullet point mention my dataset it still being used the state level for something I did X decades ago?

• Only mention it with beers to the managers of the local BlahFoo division of my local county's Department of DoingStuff (who I am personal friends with outside of work) but too overwhelmed to attempt to take care of this (and missing the technical understanding)

• Combination of the above?