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
Cole, Samantha. "'Save Our Signs' Wants to Save the Real History of National Parks Before Trump Erases It." 404 Media. July 8, 2025.
Ang, Angelica. "Outcry as Trump administration shutters two US government websites on climate change." The Straits Times. July 5, 2025.
Lapowsky, Issie. "These geeks are building an early warning system for disappearing government data." Fast Company. July 2, 2025.
Duncombe, Jenessa. "Scientists scramble to save threatened federal research databases." Physics Today. June 13, 2025.
Palmer, Kathryn. "Preserving the Federal Data Trump Is Trying to Purge." Inside Higher Ed. June 10, 2025.
Tett, Gillian. "The fight to protect US data has begun". Financial Times. June 06, 2025.
"Volunteers invited to join Data Rescue Project." The Source at WashU. June 05, 2025.
Chad de Guzman. "As Trump’s White House Purges Public Records, These Independent Databases Are Keeping Their Own Archives." Time. May 23, 2025.
AFP. "Web Archivists Scrambling to Save US Public Data." The Korea Times. May 12, 2025.
van Deelen, Grace. "NOAA Halts Maintenance of Key Arctic Data at National Snow and Ice Data Center." Eos. May 8, 2025.
Guerithault, Auriane, "Gelöschte Archivbilder: Trumps Feldzug gegen die Gleichberechtigung", Mit offenen Augen, arte, May 7, 2025.
Collister, Lauren. "With Government Data at Risk, These Volunteers are Taking Action." Katina Magazine. May 6, 2025.
Castellano, Jill. "There’s a Lot to Learn About Crime. Trump’s Orders Are Making It Harder to Get Answers." The Marshall Project. May 3, 2025.
Hosseini, Raheem. "Trump’s war on information meets a dedicated adversary: University librarians." San Francisco Chronicle. May 2, 2025.
Ahmad, Hiba. "WashU staff and students work against the clock to preserve disappearing federal data." STLPR NPR. May 1, 2025.
Schnack, Thies, "Wie Wissenschaftler Daten vor Trump retten", 3sat nano, April 29, 2025.
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
"Data Rescue: Preserving and Restoring Deleted Data." ADRCon 2025. With Meeta Anand, The Leadership Conference Education Fund and John Kubale, University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. June 25, 2025.
"Disappearing Guidance: Locating Previously Available Government Agency Information." PLLIP Summit. With Jack Cushman. June 13, 2025.
Lynda Kellam. "Keep Calm; Float On: Data Rescue and You." ACH 2025 Conference. June 12, 2025.
"Disappearing Data: Grassroots Efforts to Preserve Government Information in Uncertain Times Efforts." Help! I'm Accidental Government Information Librarian Webinar Series. With Molly Blake and Jack Cushman. May 28, 2025.
"Where Did That Document Go? Preserving and Sharing Government Information." 2025 Depository Library Council Virtual Meeting. With EDGI, the PEGI Project, and the End of Term Web Archive. May 1, 2025.
"From the Ground Up: Grassroots Efforts for Access to U.S. Government Info." GovInfo Day Canada. With the PEGI Project and the End of Term Web Archive. April 24, 2025.
"The Data Rescue Project." ACRL EBSS. April 22, 2025.
"The Data Rescue Project." PHHA Caucus of the Medical Library Association. April 15, 2025.
"Federal data is disappearing. Meet the teams working to rescue it and learn how you can help." MuckRock News. With Big Local News, Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab, and Internet Archive. February 14, 2025.
Last updated: June 16, 2025.