The Future of the USAID DHS Program

The Population Reference Bureau recently released a report called "Collaborating for Action on the Future of Demographic and Health Surveys." It summarizes discussions held in May about the USAID's Demographic and Health Surveys. DRP volunteers, who have fielded researcher questions about these surveys, were honored to

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. As of June 2025, DRP volunteers and other organizations have rescued over 1,100 public datasets from 80+ government offices. Started as

Why We’re Starting a New Federal Data Forum

We at the DRP are excited to see the federal data community working together in positive ways in the face of the current crisis. Today, we have a guest post by Mark Mather and Beth Jarosz of the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) about their new collaborative forum. America's

UChicago's Data Mirror

DRP partner's UChicago Data Mirror has started collecting federal data of interest to the University of Chicago community.

Tracking Government Information

As always, the Data Rescue Project loves highlighting partners and initiatives. Today, we celebrate the Tracking Gov Info Project! The Tracking Gov Info Project is a crowdsourcing effort to track removed and modified government information and resources. Although the news media have widely reported the current U.S. administration'

RDAP Data Rescue Hackathon

Our partner group, RDAP, hosted a virtual Data Rescue Hackathon. Find out more about the work they completed and how to get involved!

Thank you, Carla

Today, we've heard the sad news that Dr. Carla Hayden, our Librarian of Congress, has been fired. Dr. Hayden has inspired the many librarians involved with the Data Rescue Project. She was the first woman and first African American to serve as the Librarian of Congress. Moreover, she

A BRFSS Data User Story

Today, we have a data user story on the BRFSS, or the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Started in the Reagan era, the BRFSS collects data on health indicators and health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, such as cancer and diabetes, and preventative care from all 50 states, D.C.

ERICA to the Rescue!

ERIC, the research repository of the Department of Education, was defunded this week. The ERIC catalog lists over 2 million education-related publications. More than 500,000 of these publications are directly hosted by ERIC as full-text PDFs. If the ERIC website goes offline, most of these 500,000 Open Access

Welcome back covid.gov

The Data Rescue Project, as a clearinghouse of data access points, loves highlighting partners and initiatives! Today, we feature Webrecorder, a company that develops web archiving tools and open source solutions to preserve dynamic and interactive websites, such as Browsertrix, that are used by many groups focused on web crawling.

Help us keep our data afloat

During the first few months of our project we have enormously benefited from the technical and financial support of SUCHO, a data rescue initiative for Ukrainian digital cultural heritage, and EleutherAI, a non-profit, open-source research lab. Their generous assistance has included setting up the servers which host our website, our

Thanks to the library workers!

This week (April 6-12) is National Library Week!  Most of our active DRP members are librarians, so we wanted to bring attention to their hard work and dedication. Many have volunteered time outside of work to help rescue datasets, build the Data Rescue Tracker of rescued data, and assist with