Press and Presentations

This is a selection of press coverage, publications, and presentations about the Data Rescue Project (DRP). For media requests, please email datarescueproject@protonmail.com

Articles

Bullens, Lara. "First 100 days: The race to save digital records from the Trump administration." France24. April 29, 2025.

Taxay, Naomi."NU Libraries, Data Rescue Project host training to preserve disappearing federal data." The Daily Northwestern. April 24, 2025.

Baraniuk, Chris. "Inside the desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion." BBC. April 23, 2025.

Bezuidenhout, Louise & Hugh Shanahan. "US data purges draw on a playbook used worldwide." Research Professional News. April 17, 2025.

Allard, Fanny. "The great purge: US federal workers reel from Trump's sweeping cuts." France24. April 11, 2025.

Research Data Alliance. "The Data Rescue Project: Coordinating, Communicating, Conserving and Curating US Federal Data." RDA News. April 4, 2025.

Hsu, Tiffany. "The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It." New York Times. April 5, 2025.

Cole, Samantha. "Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever." 404 Media. April 4, 2025.

Peet, Lisa. "Coordinating Data Rescue Efforts." Library Journal. April 2, 2025.

Rind, David. "Trump’s DEI Data Purge." CNN One Thing podcast. March 26, 2025.

Meineck, Sebastian. "Diese Menschen retten Daten vor der Trump-Zensur." Netzpolitik.org. March 26, 2025.

Lucas, Julian. "The Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge." The New Yorker. March 14, 2025.

Woodie, Alex. "Groups Step Up to Rescue At-Risk Public Data". Big Data Wire. March 17, 2025.

Guien, Laura. "Data Rebels : les documentalistes contre-attaquent face à l’autodafé numérique de Trump." L'ADN Tendances & Mutations. March 5, 2025.

McKenzie, Jessica. "‘We’re losing our environmental history’: The future of government information under Trump." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. March 5, 2025.

Kloetzli, Sophie. "États-Unis, les archivistes du Web luttent contre la censure trumpienne." Usbek & Rica. March 5, 2025.

Lee, Eunice Eunsoo. "Data removal from government websites concerning scientists, including NU researchers." The Daily Northwestern. February 27, 2025.

Krietsch Boerner, Leigh. "Amid deletions and lawsuits, groups race to save federal data." Chemical and Engineering News. February 26, 2025.

Szadkowski, Michaël. "Contre la purge « sans précédent » des sites ordonnée par Trump, les archivistes du numérique à l’offensive." Le Monde. February 16, 2025.

Gotfredsen, Sarah Grevy. "Fighting the Great Federal Website Purge." Columbia Journalism Review. February 13, 2025.

Price, Gary. "New Resource: The Data Rescue Tracker; COPE Position: Banned Terms in Scholarly Publications and Restrictions on Researchers’ Activities; & More Headlines." InfoDocket. February 13, 2025.

Presentations

2025 Depository Library Council Virtual Meeting. "Where Did That Document Go? Preserving and Sharing Government Information." May 1, 2025. With EDGI, the PEGI Project, and the End of Term Web Archive.

GovInfo Day Canada. "From the Ground Up: Grassroots Efforts for Access to U.S. Government Info." April 24, 2025. With the PEGI Project and the End of Term Web Archive.

ACRL EBSS. "The Data Rescue Project." April 22, 2025.

PHHA Caucus of the Medical Library Association. "The Data Rescue Project." April 15, 2025.

MuckRock News. "Federal data is disappearing. Meet the teams working to rescue it and learn how you can help." February 14, 2025. With Big Local News, Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab, and Internet Archive.

Last updated: March 5, 2025.