petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

Update. "As the US government removes health websites and data, here’s a list of non-government data alternatives and archives"
https://journalistsresource.org/home/as-the-us-government-removes-health-websites-and-data-heres-a-list-of-non-government-data-alternatives/

"There’s no perfect alternative to the government databases, but some non-governmental organizations have their own datasets, which can be useful to journalists. Several #journalism associations have also been downloading government data and making them available to their members. To help journalists with their continued reporting, we have curated a list of non-government websites that have health data, although some use government data to create their reports. We’ll continue to update this list. If you have a suggestion for a database, please email us."

h/t @kdnyhan

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petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

Update. "While we at the #PEGI Project [Preservation of Electronic Government Information] have been aware of the potential for a crisis like this since the start of our project in 2017, both the pace and extent of the removals and changes have been astonishing to witness. What has also been astonishing (and heartening!) is the willingness of a broad community to join together in quick action to save content, particularly data that cannot be easily captured as part of the End of Term Archive. The Public Environmental Data Partners, a project launched by the Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI), has been working on collecting and preserving hard-to-crawl environmental data for the past couple of months. In the past two weeks, a coalition has formed to launch the Data Rescue Project, which then debuted its Data Rescue Tracker. They also have a helpful (and well-vetted!) list of Resources that can guide individuals and organizations wanting to contribute to this work."
https://www.pegiproject.org/blog/2025/2/14/pegi-project-urges-preservation-of-public-federal-data

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petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

Update. "A Renewed Call for Preservation of At-Risk Government Data"
https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/about/cms/6103

"The directors of the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research (#ISR) and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (#ICPSR) are emphasizing the critical need for preserving government data that may be at risk due to recent policy shifts....Through #DataLumos, an ICPSR archive for valuable government data resources, ICPSR is helping the data community to preserve, document, and disseminate thousands of files from agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control [#CDC] and the Department of Education [#DOE]."

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petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago

Update. "The cost of losing government webpages and public data"
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-cost-of-losing-government-webpages-and-public-data/

"Jack Cushman, director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab [@harvardlil], has been preserving sites and data that went dark after executive orders from President #Trump. He underlines the importance of keeping digital copies or risk parting with “our cultural memory.”

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petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago

Update. "Federal data is disappearing. Meet the teams working to rescue it and learn how you can help."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiZuKA-o4V4

"Since the start of the new #Trump administration, hundreds of federal data sets and government websites have gone offline without warning, sometimes returning with major changes and sometimes not returning at all. On February 13th, #MuckRock hosted an event with organizations that are helping lead the efforts to preserve the public’s data."

This is a video of the event.

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