Announcing the DRP Metadata Analyst

Today’s post is an interview with our new Metadata Analyst! The DRP is grateful to be able to offer this position throught the generous support of the Portfolio to Protect Science, a fiscally sponsored initiative of Global Impact, as well as other anonymous individual donors. We are so excited

Celebrate Peer Review Week by reviewing together!

To celebrate 2026 Peer Review Week (September 14-18), PREreview is organizing a Review-a-thon: a global event where newly-formed and existing PREreview Clubs synchronously carry out collaborative reviews of preprints and datasets. Our goal is to showcase how human, community-driven peer review can help drive change

The Great Federal SOGI Data Rescue

During the Trump administration’s first year, sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) measures were widely removed from national surveys, programmatic data, and administrative systems. These changes often happened with little transparency, accountability, or evidence-based decision-making. While the removals have largely impacted data collection and dissemination beginning in

Thank you Maggie Levenstein, outgoing ICPSR Director

ICPSR has been an integral partner in the work to back up and advocate for public data. Without ICPSR’s DataLumos, the volunteers of the Data Rescue Project would not have had the infrastructure necessary to make our rescued data accessible. This has been key for the DRP, as our

DRP response to OMB Proposed Revisions

Recent proposed revisions to the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has drawn a significant amount of attention, and justified ire. This summary of key change highlights just how sweeping these proposed changes are, and how significantly they could shape scientific research in

A Year of Saving Our Signs

The following post is authored by Save Our Signs co-founders Kirsten Delegard, Jenny McBurney, and Amelia Palacios.   Save Our Signs launched one year ago on July 3, 2025, in response to the Executive Order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” and the related Secretarial Order of the same

DRP Receives "Documents to the People" Award

The DRP Steering Committee is delighted to announce (officially!) that the Data Rescue Project has been selected to receive the 2026 ProQuest/GODORT/ALA "Documents to the People" Award. We are honored to receive this award, and are so grateful to all of the nominators.  The Government Documents

Championing Public Data: Recap from IASSIST Keynote

In early June, DRP Director Dr. Lynda Kellam delivered a moving keynote presentation at the annual IASSIST conference. In her presentation, Lynda made the connection between data stewardship roles and civic life. Lynda has kindly made her slides, and a transcript of the presentation, publicly available. But for those who

How the Trump Administration Wants to Whitewash History at the President’s Site

The following post is authored by Molly Blake, co-founder of Save Our Signs and Social Sciences Librarian at the University of Minnesota. In spring 2025, the Trump administration targeted all National Park Service (NPS) sites with censorship via Executive Order 14253 and Secretarial Order 3431. These orders have resulted

The Government Just Banned Math (only mildly hyperbolic)

Getting people to care about statistical methodologies is a challenge. Hence the hyperbolic title, but give us a few minutes because what is happening matters for you and your privacy. Last night, Hansi Lo Wang, a correspondent at NPR, reported that multiple pages that mention “differential privacy” or “noise infusion”

Update from ESIP's Repository Resilience Project

At the DRP, we are always excited to amplify our colleagues' efforts. This week, ESIP released its final report on the repository resilience project, which began at the end of last year. They have released the project's resources on Zenodo: * White Paper: Repository Resilience in Practice: Findings

Guest Post: Data Literacy for Community Action

Today's guest post is from Emily Zoe Mann, a research and instruction librarian at the University of South Florida Libraries. Read on to learn more about an exciting data literacy initiative she has spearheaded! Launched in 2024, Data Literacy for Community Action (DLCA) is a collaborative project created