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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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,