#datarescue — Public Fediverse posts

Internet Archive Blog: Internet Archive Switzerland: Expanding a Global Mission to Preserve Knowledge. “Thirty years ago, Brewster Kahle founded the Internet Archive with an ambitious goal: Universal Access to All Knowledge. Today, that mission continues to grow with an exciting new chapter: the launch of the Internet Archive Switzerland, a non-profit foundation based in St. Gallen.”

Internet Archive Blog: Internet Archive Switzerland: Expanding a Global Mission to Preserve Knowledge. “Thirty years ago, Brewster Kahle founded the Internet Archive with an ambitious goal: Universal Access to All Knowledge. Today, that mission continues to grow with an exciting new chapter: the launch of the Internet Archive Switzerland, a non-profit foundation based in St. Gallen.”

The @datarescueproject.org team is running an LGBTQ+ Data Rescue Hackathon on May 28 at noon Eastern/9am Pacific/5pm UTC.

"Participants will help identify, document, and rescue publicly available federal datasets that include sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) measures."

Details: https://www.datarescueproject.org/lgbtq-hackathon/

#data #DataRescue #DataRescueProject #hackathon #LGBTQ #LGBTQI #FightFascism

Data Rescue Project: Save Our Signs: New photos, new maps, and a renewed sense of purpose. “With the completion of this new backend database, we’ve begun processing and publishing the photos that volunteers have submitted since the initial September 2025 deadline. Today, we have published over 2,500 new photos to the SOS Archive, and are hard at work processing about 1,500 more that have been […]

Data Rescue Project: Save Our Signs: New photos, new maps, and a renewed sense of purpose. “With the completion of this new backend database, we’ve begun processing and publishing the photos that volunteers have submitted since the initial September 2025 deadline. Today, we have published over 2,500 new photos to the SOS Archive, and are hard at work processing about 1,500 more that have been […]

Data Rescue Project: Save Our Signs: New photos, new maps, and a renewed sense of purpose. “With the completion of this new backend database, we’ve begun processing and publishing the photos that volunteers have submitted since the initial September 2025 deadline. Today, we have published over 2,500 new photos to the SOS Archive, and are hard at work processing about 1,500 more that have been […]

Data Rescue Project: Save Our Signs: New photos, new maps, and a renewed sense of purpose. “With the completion of this new backend database, we’ve begun processing and publishing the photos that volunteers have submitted since the initial September 2025 deadline. Today, we have published over 2,500 new photos to the SOS Archive, and are hard at work processing about 1,500 more that have been […]

Data Rescue Project: Save Our Signs: New photos, new maps, and a renewed sense of purpose. “With the completion of this new backend database, we’ve begun processing and publishing the photos that volunteers have submitted since the initial September 2025 deadline. Today, we have published over 2,500 new photos to the SOS Archive, and are hard at work processing about 1,500 more that have been […]

Tom’s Hardware: 385TB video game archive saved by fans — Myrient has been ‘100% backed up’ and validated, torrents being generated. “A member of the Save Myrient community has announced that the colossal video games archive has been ‘100% backed up!’ This retro-gaming resource was on the precipice of collapsing last month after collection admins revealed that insufficient funding, rising […]

Tom’s Hardware: 385TB video game archive saved by fans — Myrient has been ‘100% backed up’ and validated, torrents being generated. “A member of the Save Myrient community has announced that the colossal video games archive has been ‘100% backed up!’ This retro-gaming resource was on the precipice of collapsing last month after collection admins revealed that insufficient funding, rising […]

Tom’s Hardware: 385TB video game archive saved by fans — Myrient has been ‘100% backed up’ and validated, torrents being generated. “A member of the Save Myrient community has announced that the colossal video games archive has been ‘100% backed up!’ This retro-gaming resource was on the precipice of collapsing last month after collection admins revealed that insufficient funding, rising […]

Tom’s Hardware: 385TB video game archive saved by fans — Myrient has been ‘100% backed up’ and validated, torrents being generated. “A member of the Save Myrient community has announced that the colossal video games archive has been ‘100% backed up!’ This retro-gaming resource was on the precipice of collapsing last month after collection admins revealed that insufficient funding, rising […]

Tom’s Hardware: 385TB video game archive saved by fans — Myrient has been ‘100% backed up’ and validated, torrents being generated. “A member of the Save Myrient community has announced that the colossal video games archive has been ‘100% backed up!’ This retro-gaming resource was on the precipice of collapsing last month after collection admins revealed that insufficient funding, rising […]

TorrentFreak: Internet Archive Faces Copyright Lawsuit Over ‘Myspace Dragon Hoard’. “Illinois-based musician Anthony Martino is suing the Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its Myspace Dragon Hoard collection. This 490,000 MP3 collection was created from recordings that were lost in Myspace’s 2019 server disaster. According to Martino, his music ended up in the collection […]

TorrentFreak: Internet Archive Faces Copyright Lawsuit Over ‘Myspace Dragon Hoard’. “Illinois-based musician Anthony Martino is suing the Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its Myspace Dragon Hoard collection. This 490,000 MP3 collection was created from recordings that were lost in Myspace’s 2019 server disaster. According to Martino, his music ended up in the collection […]

TorrentFreak: Internet Archive Faces Copyright Lawsuit Over ‘Myspace Dragon Hoard’. “Illinois-based musician Anthony Martino is suing the Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its Myspace Dragon Hoard collection. This 490,000 MP3 collection was created from recordings that were lost in Myspace’s 2019 server disaster. According to Martino, his music ended up in the collection […]

TorrentFreak: Internet Archive Faces Copyright Lawsuit Over ‘Myspace Dragon Hoard’. “Illinois-based musician Anthony Martino is suing the Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its Myspace Dragon Hoard collection. This 490,000 MP3 collection was created from recordings that were lost in Myspace’s 2019 server disaster. According to Martino, his music ended up in the collection […]

Axios: Inside the Internet Archive’s race to save federal webpages. “Government webpages on USAID, DEI and gender, among others, simply ‘got wiped out,’ Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told visitors during a recent tour of their headquarters in the Richmond District.”

AMSTAT News: Data Rescue Goes Local. “Data rescue is one of the greatest Data for Good success stories of the past year. A team of volunteers and individuals have come together to save data across the US federal system from deletion and dilution, as well as lessen the diminishment of staff, resources, and impact. This outstanding effort continues today with an emphasis on state and local data […]

Data Rescue Project: SOS! Help Save Our Signs Today . “The Save Our Signs Project team needs your help – and soon. The Washington Post reported on Tuesday morning that sites across the country have been targeted for erasure, including Grand Canyon, Glacier, Big Bend, and Zion. Save Our Signs needs your help to document these educational materials before they disappear.”

Slaw: The Data Rescue Project: Preserving Government Data Is a Tech & Community Issue. “Precursors to the Data Rescue Project such as the End of Term Web Archive, which captures federal government data after presidential administration transitions, the 2017 Data Refuge Project, and the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI), laid the groundwork for 2025 preservation efforts, but […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/01/the-data-rescue-project-preserving-government-data-is-a-tech-community-issue-slaw/

Making 10M government PDF documents searchable https://flowingdata.com/2025/11/26/making-10m-government-pdf-documents-searchable/

"The code for GovScape is open source and available on GitHub."

#OpenData #OpenGov #OCR #DataRescue #GovDocs

We often discuss how public data influences our everyday lives whether we acknowledge it or not. This week's guest article highlights your daily interactions with public data: www.datarescueproject.org/guest-post-a... #PublicData #DataRescue

Guest Post: A Day in the Life ...

Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab: Welcome to LIL’s Data.gov Archive Search. “Today, we’re pleased to share Data.gov Archive Search, an interface for exploring this important collection of government datasets. Our work builds on recent advancements in lightweight, browser-based querying to enable discovery of more than 311,000 datasets comprising some 17.9 terabytes of data on […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/03/harvard-law-school-library-innovation-lab-welcome-to-lils-data-gov-archive-search/

Have you received a #DataRescueProject sticker? Maybe at a conference, maybe via mail, or somewhere else? We want to see where it ended up! Reply or quote this with a picture of your sticker. This isn't a contest or anything, but it will bring a lil morale boost to your fave #DataRescue crew!

👩🏻‍💻 Checking the Day 2 Wed. 23Oct programme at #OpenEngaged #OAWeek:
🌟Lightning talks: #SafeguardingResearch #Datarescue #CARE #OpenGLAM #Accessibility
🌟Technology, Power, and Equitable Design session. #LocalContexts #OpenCitations #OpenMetadata
✅ Register https://openscholarship.gitbook.io/open-and-engaged-2025/day-2-wednesday-22-october

🎉 Ah, the age-old tale of saving the world with... a file system and some USB sticks! 🌍🔌 Because clearly, when humanity needs a hero, it looks to #ZFS and a keychain's worth of storage. 🤦‍♂️ Bravo, Constantin, bravo. 🏆
https://constantin.glez.de/posts/2011-01-24-how-to-save-the-world-with-zfs-and-12-usb-sticks-4th-anniversary-video-re-release-edition/ #savingtheworld #USBsticks #techhumor #heroics #datarescue #HackerNews #ngated

Data Rescue Project: Updates from the SaveOurSigns Campaign. “The #SaveOurSigns Campaign is a wonderful example of the power and importance of crowdsourced projects. The team has received almost 8000 photos from over 300 sites! The goals are to raise awareness about threats to information about our past and to engage the public in history projects. “

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/23/data-rescue-project-updates-from-the-saveoursigns-campaign/

NASA's #data collection has undergone massive shifts in lifecycle management, #FAIR_data, technological trends, and policy. Evolving from 1980s magnetic tapes to a network of over 30 online repositories, the tech trends are easiest to identify. Adoption of #DataPipeline and #DataStandards an ongoing focus. #DataGovernance and #DataRescue are emerging. NASA #DataStewardship navigates rapid technology and long-term science.

Bugbee, K., & Ramachandran, R. (2025) https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EA004413 #SciLit

Ithaka S+R: Preserving At-Risk Public Data. “Since February, the Data Rescue Project and over 500 volunteers have identified and preserved public access to over 1,200 vulnerable federal reports, datasets, and resources. We exchanged emails recently with members of the Data Rescue Project Steering Committee to learn more about their work, the value of federal data, preservation and access […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/24/ithaka-sr-preserving-at-risk-public-data/

Want to talk with others about the challenges facing the Federal Statistical System and public data? @apduorg.bsky.social has created some useful slides! #DataRescue #PublicData docs.google.com/presentation...

Data System Changes and Challe...

This week we will join the Penn State Open Scholarship Bootcamp. We are excited to learn from our colleagues and talk about #DataInfrastructure and #DataRescue penn-state-open-science.github.io/bootcamp-2025/

Bootcamp 2025

Demons might not be ready for a #Takedown-- but you can be! Check out our Data Rescue Event Kit on OSF for resources, lesson plans, and more: osf.io/zbdxt/ #DataRescue #KPopDemonHunters

Data Rescue Project: Data Resc...

Join us for a webinar on the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) Latino Data Hub. Learn about updates coming to the Hub and celebrate the power of public data. ❤️ Learn more: www.datarescueproject.org/latino-data-... #DataRescue #PublicData

UCLA's LPPI and the Latino Dat...

Data Rescue Project: Data Rescue Project Launches New Portal. “The Data Rescue Project (DRP) is excited to announce the launch of the DRP Portal—a milestone in our collective effort to protect and preserve at-risk public information. … The Portal makes it easy to discover rescued datasets by government offices sharing the data, topic, and more.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/25/data-rescue-project-data-rescue-project-launches-new-portal/

Data Rescue Project: Why We’re Starting a New Federal Data Forum. “[Population Reference Bureau] recently launched the Federal Data Forum—a centralized online community designed to unite public data stakeholders in defense of America’s statistical infrastructure. The initiative builds on PRB’s previous work as data intermediaries, including our American Community Survey Online Community, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/18/data-rescue-project-why-were-starting-a-new-federal-data-forum/

Initiatives like @SafeguardingResearch work hard to rescue #researchData that are (about to be) deleted by the Trump administration, by using a Bittorrent network where many small nodes contribute.

This is a very #solarpunk way of doing science: community-driven, decentralized & resilient #SolarpunkScience.
Some tinker projects:

🎯1. Develop the most low-cost (in €, material resources, and CO2) p2p solution for data rescueing.

Maybe a #RaspberryPi + existing HDD? Reuse existing hardware. Compute costs in absolute and relative way (€ and CO2 per terabyte of data stored & shared). Is a bigger server plugged to a uni network more efficient in relative costs?

🎯2. Run a hackathon, help others to install the bittorrent clients on whatever machine they have.

🎯3 (Bonus): Build a purely solar powered, autonomous seeding node. E.g. the #LowTechMagazine went a long way in optimizing a web server that runs on solar + battery (achieving >95% uptime on a 50W solar setup)
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website/

Imagine little autonomous, solar powered seeding nodes standing in gardens, tirelessly sharing research data whenever the sun is shining. A project that regenerates our digital commons in a sustainable, community-led way 🌱.

Please share your thoughts - is this a feasible and worthwhile project?

#SafeguardingResearch #DataRescue #OpenScience #OpenData #DIY
CC @moritz_negwer @alxd @thorsi @BlumeEvolution @marieverdeil @pluralistic @lmu_osc @Lambo

(edit: Updated the mock-up image with an improved, non-AI version)

ResearchGate: Human-in-the-loop tabular data extraction methods for historical climate data rescue. “…we propose a human-in-the-loop workflow with benchmarks of open- and closed-source methods for extracting and processing handwritten tabular data. We explain through the case of climatological data from the Congo region (1907–1960) how HIL workflows can be implemented and their trade-offs […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/14/researchgate-human-in-the-loop-tabular-data-extraction-methods-for-historical-climate-data-rescue/

Are there new #DataRescue events aiming to archive #USGovernment
#environmentaldata ahead of the new administration taking over?

I attended #datarescueDC back in 2017 https://datarefuge.github.io/datarescue-dc/ & managed to find a blog post about the 2017 event on the #waybackmachine https://web.archive.org/web/20170224053456/https://thehoya.com/university-hosts-federal-climate-data-rescue-event/

Anyone know if https://www.datarefugestories.org/ is still active?

Storm Ulysses paper out now - @ed_hawkins and many co-authors including me.

Rescuing old data helps improve our understanding of current and future wind risks

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/24/1903-storm-ulysses-one-of-windiest-ever-in-england-and-wales-shows-analysis

and paper here:
https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/23/1465/2023/

#ClimateAction #DataRescue #CitizenScience #Reanalysis #ClimateStripes