Related: Also see the End of Term Web Archive, which routinely scrapes and preserves US govt web pages before new presidents take office. Launched in 2008 and still going strong. To supplement its archive, it welcomes URL nominations of sites to save.
https://eotarchive.org/
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Related: "As Data Goes Off-Line Under #Trump, Environmental Researchers Are Uploading Backups"
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2025/01/29/data-goes-line-under-trump-researchers-upload-backups
"In the first few days of Donald Trump’s second term as president, the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s #Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (#CEJST, for short) disappeared from government websites. It was an interactive map of U.S. Census tracts that are “marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution,” as the pre-Trump federal government put it—something researchers and the public could use to quickly locate and zoom in on specific communities and analyze the problems they face. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine stored a copy of the webpage, but even there, the map was gone. However, thanks to a team of researchers from multiple universities and other organizations, a new working version was posted online Friday."
Related: "The #Trump administration is scrubbing the #CDC’s website of documents on #ReproductiveRights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. We’re saving them. 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘋𝘢𝘺 will publish and host these vital documents for as long as necessary. To share deleted documents with 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘋𝘢𝘺, email tips@abortioneveryday.com. "
https://jessica.substack.com/p/cdc-birth-control-guidelines-pdf
Related. Also see the Safeguarding Research project.
https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/
"You know of any publicly available material that needs safeguarding? Please post about it here!"
Related. "Researchers rush to preserve federal health databases before they disappear from government websites"
https://journalistsresource.org/home/researchers-rush-to-preserve-federal-health-databases-before-they-disappear-from-government-websites/
"Tips for preserving websites:
* To find the missing websites, go to Wayback Machine and type in the website’s URL in the search bar.
* If you’re concerned that certain websites or web pages may be removed, you can suggest federal websites and content that end in .gov, .mil and .com to the End of Term Web Archive.
* You can suggest federal climate and environmental databases to Environmental Data and Governance Initiative.
* You can suggest databases to The Data Liberation Project, which is run by MuckRock and Big Local News.
* Tell science journalist Maggie Koerth what CDC data you've downloaded and whether you've made them publicly available...."
Related. "Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00374-y
#CDC#FDA#Medicine#Preservation#Takedowns #Trump#USPol#USPolitics
Update. "Inside the race to archive the US government’s websites"
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/07/1111328/inside-the-race-to-archive-the-us-governments-websites/
Surveying a range of initiatives with good clarity on the obstacles.
"There are questions about whether scraping the data will really be enough. Restoring websites and complex data sets is often not a simple process.…'The repairs and attempts to recover are sometimes insurmountable where we need continuous readings of data.' 'All of this data archiving work is a temporary Band-Aid,' says Gosnell. 'If data sets are removed and are no longer updated, our archived data will become increasingly stale and thus ineffective at informing decisions over time.' "
#Climate#Data#Medicine#OpenData#Preservation#Takedowns #Trump#USPol#USPolitics
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