This is very welcome news in the face of Trumpist depredations of US public data. https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01/30/preserving-public-u-s-federal-data/ "In recent months the Harvard Law School @harvard_law] Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil] has created a data vault to download […] - ThreadSky

petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy • 22 days ago

This is very welcome news in the face of Trumpist depredations of
US public data.
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01/30/preserving-public-u-s-federal-data/

"In recent months the Harvard Law School https://bird.makeup/users/harvard_law Library Innovation Lab https://fediscience.org/tags/Github […]

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petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy•22 days ago

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/

#OpenData […]

petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy•22 days ago

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 […]

petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy•22 days ago

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 […]

JoshuaACNewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy•21 days ago

@petersuber @astroPug
It might be possible to set up a Signal account to send these, anonymously encrypted.

petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy•22 days ago

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!"

#Preservation #USPol #USPolitics

petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy•21 days ago

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 […]

petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy•15 days ago

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

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