The Population Reference Bureau recently released a report called "Collaborating for Action on the Future of Demographic and Health Surveys." It summarizes discussions held in May about the USAID's Demographic and Health Surveys. DRP volunteers, who have fielded researcher questions about these surveys, were honored to
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
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
DRP partner's UChicago Data Mirror has started collecting federal data of interest to the University of Chicago community.
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'
Our partner group, RDAP, hosted a virtual Data Rescue Hackathon. Find out more about the work they completed and how to get involved!
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