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Update. "The Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge. Can #librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from #DOGE.
newyorker.com/news/the-lede/th
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"Lynda Kellam, a social scientist and data librarian,…who’s served in leadership positions at two Ivy League universities, described the vulnerable data as “irreplaceable.”…Kellam told me that she’d participated in a small data-preservation effort during Trump’s first term, but had never seen anything like the frenzy that ignited in late January, when the #CDC began removing information from its website. Kellam was encouraged, but worried about a lack of coördination. What if the backups languished on private hard drives? What if archivists duplicated one another’s work? She created a Google Doc to centralize information about preëxisting initiatives—an archive of archives, with detailed instructions on how to contribute to each…Kellam met with the heads of other data-librarian organizations, and together they founded the #DataRescueProject."

The New Yorker · The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s PurgeBy Julian Lucas
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Workers expressed fear that #Trump’s cuts will threaten a collection of precious #art housed in federal buildings across the country, including Alexander Calder’s 1974 “Flamingo” at the John C. Kluczynski Federal Building in Chicago & Michael Lantz’s 1942 “Man Controlling Trade” outside the Federal Trade Commission building in D.C.

#FineArt#Musk#DOGE

The future of a vast collection of public #artwork is in doubt as the #Trump admin plans to fire workers who preserve & maintain more than 26m pieces owned by the US govt, including #paintings & #sculptures by renowned #artists, some dating to the 1850s.
#FineArts & historic #preservation workers at the GSA said that ≧5 regional offices were shuttered & that more than half of the division’s approximately 3 dozen staff members were put on leave pending terminations.

#DOGE
washingtonpost.com/entertainme

The Washington Post · Trump administration slashes division in charge of 26,000 U.S. artworksBy Kriston Capps
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Update. #CoherentDigital launches Policy Commons 2025 Open Collection.
linkedin.com/posts/tobyabgreen

"It's our contribution to the ongoing effort to rescue, preserve and make open endangered government materials at risk of disappearing…Our focus will be on policy and technical reports, papers, documents, blogposts, videos, and podcasts but we're open to suggestions for other content types - except for datasets. There are a number of excellent ongoing efforts to rescue data so there's no need for us to replicate them…Our goal is to make these materials easy to find and permanently available…We’re calling on librarians and researchers to help identify endangered materials from government agencies and suggest at-risk websites and repositories. We're also inviting those who have been working closely with agencies to send us copies of previously open materials they may have on their hard drives and laptops."

Also see the project home page and FAQ.
coherentdigital.net/open-2025

www.linkedin.comPolicy Commons 2025 Open Collection | Toby GreenAfter some weeks of scrambling after government content that's either disappeared or is now at risk, we're very pleased to announce the Policy Commons 2025…
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Update. "Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump #CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe"
404media.co/archivists-recreat

"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."

404 Media · Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in EuropeThe team used a Reddit-made archive of the CDC website to create a new live mirror of the site before it was purged.
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Update. "Safeguarding Research & Culture — Distributing Cultural Memory"
safeguarding-research.discours

"The destruction of knowledge and cultural heritage has happened, and therefore it can happen again. We are in the middle of that happening, whether it is caused by human action or natural causes…Safeguarding Research & Culture (#SRC) is creating an alternative #infrastructure for archiving and disseminating of cultural heritage and scientific knowledge…Together, we can ensure that our cultural, intellectual and scientific heritage exists in multiple copies, in multiple places, and that no single entity or group of entities can make it all disappear. Our archive is built according to the principles of #FAIR and #CARE, based on open technologies and standards, and resilient against loss via meaningfully distributed storage…Everyone, from individuals to institutions, can participate by accessing, contributing, and supporting these archival infrastructures."

Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC) — Distributing Cultural MemoryAbout - Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC) — Distributing Cultural Memory"As researchers we often say 'we need the data'. Today, the data needs us." — Kathy Reid
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Update. "EDGI Relaunches Federal Environmental Web Tracker"
envirodatagov.org/press-releas

"In response to the #Trump administration’s rapid dismantling of federal websites, the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (#EDGI) has relaunched its Federal Environmental Web Tracker…The… Tracker makes records of significant changes to federal environmental websites publicly available in a searchable database…Since the first Trump administration, EDGI has monitored thousands of federal environmental webpages. Partners at the #InternetArchive download these webpages every day, and EDGI’s #OpenSource software compares versions of these webpages to identify differences."

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Update. "Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump"
democracynow.org/2025/2/28/int

"Thousands of informational government webpages have been taken down so far in the second #Trump administration, including on public health, scientific research and LGBTQ rights. Amid this mass erasure of public information, the #InternetArchive is racing to save copies of those deleted resources."

Democracy Now! · Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under TrumpBy Democracy Now!
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Update. "How the Wayback Machine is preserving outdated government websites."
cbsnews.com/video/how-the-wayb

"The #WaybackMachine is helping preserve the record of government websites before they were changed by the TTrump administration. CBS News Confirmed's Rhona Tarrant reports."

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Update. "The fight to preserve federal government data."
muckrock.com/news/archives/202

"Despite the Trump administration restricting access to these government sites and its underlying data, organizations and individuals have been working to preserve this data. Here are just a few of the efforts that part of an ongoing effort to preserve public information."

MuckRockThe fight to preserve federal government dataMultiple organizations are fighting to preserve access to government data and websites that have been removed after President Donald Trump took office.
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Update. "Federal data is disappearing. Meet the teams working to rescue it and learn how you can help."
youtube.com/watch?v=hiZuKA-o4V

"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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Update. "The cost of losing government webpages and public data"
marketplace.org/shows/marketpl

"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.”

MarketplaceThe cost of losing government webpages and public data - MarketplaceJack Cushman of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab has been preserving sites and data that went dark after executive orders from President Trump.
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Update. "A Renewed Call for Preservation of At-Risk Government Data"
icpsr.umich.edu/web/about/cms/

"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]."

www.icpsr.umich.eduA Renewed Call for Preservation of At-Risk Government Data

Dear Fedi: please help me to help you. With all the clusterf*cks and fascist coup happening in the US: what data is important to preserve and keep spreading?

Already have been seeding the CDC dataset and Wikipedia dumps into oblivion (couple of hundreds of TBs of traffic) - but I'd like to do more.

If you know important projects that need this kind of help - preferably less than a TB in size - please share!

(boosts appreciated for visibility)

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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."
pegiproject.org/blog/2025/2/14

PEGI ProjectPEGI Project Urges Preservation of Public Federal Data — PEGI ProjectRapid political events have led to an upheaval in access to data and other information resources produced by the U.S. government, particularly content associated with Executive Orders (EOs) seeking to upend prior federal government activity associated with diversity and inclusion, gender identity, i