DRP co-founder and Steering Committee Member Mikala Narlock recently spoke at the Midwest Data Librarian Symposium. Below, she shares an overview of the presentation (slides available for review) and her own reflections. One thing the Midwest does exceptionally well is Fall: the leaves change slowly, and then all at once;
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Since launching in February 2025, the Data Rescue Project has grown substantially. At this point, the DRP has enabled the rescue of more than 1,000 datasets from US Federal websites, representing over 80 statistical programs and offices, all due entirely to the work of our more
This week's guest post is from the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab. As October draws to a closer, we are grateful to this team for their efforts to update Data.Gov Archive, which now includes a search interface to support the discoverability and usability of federal data.
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Our federal data are meeting an untimely end. Help track their final days.🪦
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Hello from the DRP Steering Committee! We have a few updates. ❤️🛟 Announcements * Join us for office hours this coming Wednesday, October 29, at 4:30 pm Eastern. The HIFLD volunteers will be taking over to chat about the project! Use this link for the office hours. Thank you again to
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Before we talk about events, we would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to our community of volunteers for your interest in and support for the project to back up HIFLD Open. HIFLD Open was a collection of open datasets that acted as a “digital go bag” for communities
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We have a guest post this week from the Climate.us team. We were very excited to talk with Rebecca Lindsey and learn more about their team's plans for Climate.us, especially their rescue of the Fifth National Climate Assessment. In 2024, if you googled “climate,” the first
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The Save Our Signs project (SOS), a community-driven effort to preserve National Park Service (NPS) interpretive materials before they are removed from public view, is proud to announce the launch of the Save Our Signs Archive, a collection of photographs taken by visitors at National Parks. This open access “people’
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The Data Rescue Project was pleased to receive an NDSA Excellence Award last week. We were honored to be recognized alongside other incredible librarians, archivists, and leaders. Below is the transcript of remarks delivered by Lynda Kellam. We would like to express our sincere appreciation to all our volunteers for
Preserving public data
Second in a series of posts about federal data and the Federal Statistical System.
The Federal Statistical System impacts everyone in the US (and many globally) whether they realize it or not.
Join us on September 17 to learn more about Save Our Signs!
Learn about the Federal Statistical System and ways to support it. Public data is a public good!
Help us finish strong with #SaveOurSigns this Labor Day. Plus, if you’re in NYC, come see us in person!
Today, we have another guest post from a Data Rescue Project volunteer. Jeanine is conducting a survey of instructors who teach with government data. In addition, we will have our regular office hours this week on Wednesday, August 20, from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Eastern. Please join
Since we started the Data Rescue Project (DRP), we have received many requests for saving the tables libraries associated with the National Center for Education Statistics surveys. The tables libraries in DataLab provide quick reference and summary statistics for researchers of the work the NCES does: research on safety in
We imagine that many of you have already heard the news about last night's removal of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner, Erika McEntarfer. We are dismayed by these actions and join our partner groups, the Friends of BLS, COPAFS, APDU, and others, in calling on Congress to
Today, we are back to featuring some data user stories. Thank you to Natasha Randall for sending this post about the importance of public data for her research on flood prediction. I am a PhD student, and my research topic is on developing deep learning (AI) models for flood prediction.
We are excited about the upcoming RDAP Hackathon! This time they are partnering with DataFirst and ICPSR to rescue data that was previously publicly-available on the USAID's knowledge platform. Date: August 7, 2025 Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Eastern) Registration link: https://rdapassociation.org/event-6266055
We are excited to partner with the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) to highlight updates to their Latino Data Hub. Come to their webinar to learn more about the Latino Data Hub and the power of public data! If you are keeping up with us, check out our
At the recent IASSIST conference, we learned of an effort to sonify the work connected to our Data Rescue Project Tracker. Sonification is a fascinating area used in a variety of fields. This project conveys well the urgency we all felt during the early months of 2025, so we invited
