Government Information Data Rescue

The Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS) is devoted to educational activities and to preserving the public good represented by federal statistical collections.

The Data Curation Network (DCN) is a membership organization of institutional and non-profit data repositories whose vision is to advance open research by making data more ethical, reusable, and understandable. Based at the University of Minnesota, the DCN also facilitates a shared-curation workflow, in which datasets from one institution are matched with an expert at a different member institution.

The Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab is a group of librarians, technologists, lawyers, and designers with a mission to grow knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers. They have been archiving federal datasets from a variety of sources including Data.gov.

IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology) is an international organization of professionals working with information technology and data services to support research and teaching.

Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) is an initiative to address national concerns regarding the preservation of electronic government information by cultural memory organizations for long term use by the public. They work to build capacity for libraries to preserve historically significant born-digital government information.

RDAP (Research Data Access & Preservation) brings together a variety of individuals, including data managers and curators, librarians, archivists, researchers, educators, students, technologists, and data scientists from academic institutions, data centers, funding agencies, and industry who represent a wide range of STEM disciplines, social sciences, and humanities to create, maintain, advance, and teach best practices for research data, access, and preservation.

The Silencing Science Tracker is a joint initiative of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund. It tracks government attempts to restrict or prohibit scientific research, education or discussion, or the publication or use of scientific information, since the November 2016 election.

This project is an attempt to track removed and modified government information and resources, to help the public see the scope of what has been removed or modified, and to point to where preserved copies can be found, if possible. Including a link to a form, where anyone can add entries for missing gov information, as well as to a spreadsheet, which is a publicly viewable list of all the entries we have received.

WARC School is ATBW’s training program that aims to create a new generation of web archiving practitioners dedicated to documenting the Black experience online. The curriculum supports an inclusive web archiving practice that equally values the development of technical skills and the cultivation of web archiving practices informed by cultural practices and ways of knowing.