#digitalimpermanence — Public Fediverse posts

NBC News: Justice Department deletes press releases on charges against Jan. 6 rioters. “The Justice Department has removed press releases detailing the charges against hundreds of individuals who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot from its website, the department confirmed Friday.”

Ars Technica: Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals. “When thousands of pages started disappearing from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website late last week, public health researchers quickly moved to archive deleted public health data. Soon, researchers discovered that the Internet Archive (IA) offers one of the most effective ways to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/15/ars-technica-internet-archive-played-crucial-role-in-tracking-shady-cdc-data-removals/

All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive https://eotarchive.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_Term_Web_Archive

https://blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/end-of-term-web-archive/

National Archives blog post: https://records-express.blogs.archives.gov/2024/06/24/announcing-the-2024-end-of-term-web-archive-initiative

Library of Congress blog post: https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2024/07/nominations-sought-for-the-2024-2025-u-s-federal-government-domain-end-of-term-web-archive/

GitHub: https://github.com/end-of-term/eot2024
Internet Archive collection page: https://archive.org/details/EndofTermWebCrawls

#bigdata #contentremoval #datasets #digitalimpermanence #governmentdatasets #Politics #trumpadministration

404 Media: Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov. “As people in the Data Hoarding and archiving communities have pointed out, on January 21, there were 307,854 datasets on data.gov. As of Thursday, there are 305,564 datasets. Many of the deletions happened immediately after Trump was inaugurated, according to snapshots of the website saved […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/02/404-media-archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov/