"Why are data nerds racing to save US government statistics?"
https://archive.is/7gF5f

"After watching data sets be altered or disappear from U.S. government websites in unprecedented ways after President Donald Trump began his second term, an army of outside statisticians, demographers and computer scientists have joined forces to capture, preserve and share data sets, sometimes clandestinely. Their goal is to make sure they are available in the future, believing that democracy suffers when policymakers don’t have reliable data and that national statistics should be above partisan politics."

#Censorship#Data#DefendResearch#OpenData#Preservation#Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

Rip your Itch.io library (owned and otherwise) with itch-dl : https://github.com/DragoonAethis/itch-dl

#itchio #visa #mastercard #preservation #archive #archival #itch

An Overview of Emulation as a Preservation Method
Eric Kaltman, Winnie Schwaid-Lindner, Drey Jonathan, Andrew Borman, Alex Garnett, and Larry Masinter
#CLIR #preservation#DigitalPreservation
https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/an-overview-of-emulation-as-a-preservation-method/?hss_channel=lcp-6203386

Kudos to the #Connecticut legislature for passing a new law on digital books and following the 2020 model legislation from #LibraryFutures.( @libraryfutures).
https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/connecticut-ebook-bill

"After the governor signs, #publishers will no longer be able to
* Prohibit #libraries from #lending #ebooks on their own terms,, including via interlibrary loan (#ILL)
* Restrict #license terms or checkout limits during the term of a license without offering agreements on “commercially reasonable terms” that align with the library mission
* Limit when libraries can buy an ebook license or how many licenses they can buy
* Prohibit libraries from making #preservation #copies
* Require libraries to violate patron confidentiality."

#Books#Privacy

"Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump #CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe."
https://www.404media.co/archivists-recreate-pre-trump-cdc-website-are-hosting-it-in-europe/

"A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe…Restored CDC isn’t going to have continuous updates on this type of healthcare and disease guidance, but it has brought back all of the critical data that was purged in an easy to use, easy to navigate, and fast website."

Here's the site itself.
https://aboutus.restoredcdc.org/

#Censorship#DefendResearch#Medicine#Preservation#Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

"Data Rescue Project Launches New Portal."
https://www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-project-portal/

The Data Rescue Project (#DRP) just launched the DRP Portal to supersede its spreadsheet-based Data Rescue Tracker.

"As of June 2025, DRP volunteers and other organizations have rescued over 1,100 public datasets from 80+ government offices…Built by volunteers with support from New America and using JKAN, a lightweight, backend-free open data portal, the DRP Portal is a centralized, searchable hub, integrating datasets from multiple rescue efforts such as Public Environmental Data Partners, Safe Guarding Research & Culture, ICPSR, and more. The Portal makes it easy to discover rescued datasets by government offices sharing the data, topic, and more."

Here's the portal itself.
https://portal.datarescueproject.org/

#DefendResearch#DRP#OpenData#OpenSource#Preservation#Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics