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
Data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey now represent the only source of updated, representative data on eating disorders among US youth.
We have had a lot of interest in our work over the weekend, probably because of the New Yorker article and the recent Executive Order targeting several key offices, especially for us librarians. We welcome everyone to our efforts and thank you so much for your support. Today, we want
We received a timely data user story focused on the Department of Education’s data, especially the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). The data user wrote, “I work with students navigating the college application process. The IPEDS data is the underlying data set for multiple platforms that high schools,
Join the Data Rescue Project on Tuesday, March 11, at 4:00 PM Eastern for an informal presentation and discussion about hosting a data rescue event. We will have members on hand to talk about their recent events, past experiences, and things to keep in mind. In addition, we will
Are you looking for a specific dataset? Are you curious if someone somewhere has rescued it? You aren't alone! We created the Data Rescue Project (DRP) as a way to encourage communication across the many groups interested in rescuing data, from small-scale rescue events to larger institutional
A few journalists have asked about our efforts in the past few days. They often ask why data rescue matters and why the public should care about US federal data and its loss. While librarians can undoubtedly answer that question--preserving access is at the heart of our profession--we
Librarians are great at quickly pulling together resources to support their patrons, and in the face of recent data loss, this need has become more urgent. Our patrons rely on access to public government data. While some of that data might be available for a fee through vendor products, not
Update: This post was from our early days in February 2025 when we were only three weeks old. Many changes have happened since then, but the basic information is still true. We are still exploring ways to support and preserve our public data. Recently, we have received many expressions of
The PEGI Project recently released a post about the preservation of public federal data in support of the Data Rescue Project. PEGI stands for Preservation of Electronic Government Information and was created in 2016 by a group of government information librarians who were concerned about the future of electronic forms