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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
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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
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DRP partner's UChicago Data Mirror has started collecting federal data of interest to the University of Chicago community.
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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'
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Our partner group, RDAP, hosted a virtual Data Rescue Hackathon. Find out more about the work they completed and how to get involved!
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Since we started working on this effort, we have had a lot of questions about restricted access data. We posted the challenges we face on our FAQ page. Participants with the DRP were also featured in an article about restricted data on 404 Media yesterday. We are pleased to see
For the past forty years, USAID's Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) have been an invaluable source of data that captured information about fertility, family planning, maternal and child health, gender, HIV/AIDS, literacy, malaria, nutrition, and sanitation for over 90 low and middle income countries throughout the world.
Today, we highlight another partner in our data rescue work: America’s Essential Data (AED). The group aims to document “the value that data produced by the federal government provides for American lives and livelihoods.” You know we love a data impact story, and their team has been developing a