RDAP Data Rescue Hackathon
Our partner group, RDAP, hosted a virtual Data Rescue Hackathon. Find out more about the work they completed and how to get involved!
On April 24, 2025, Research Data Access and Preservation Association (RDAP) hosted a Data Rescue Hackathon. Facilitated by members from both the Data Rescue Project (DRP) and RDAP, 147 attendees (including data professionals and members of the public) joined in on the event.
While the beginning of the Hackathon focused on the history and mission of the DRP, including information on how to get involved, the bulk of the time spent involved actively rescuing data. Participants were focused on two endeavors: adding much-needed metadata to ICPSR entries and documenting and downloading the data tables from the National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF), a survey distributed by the National Center for Education Statistics.
By the end of the Hackathon, metadata was added to several records for ICPSR, and the NSOPF dataset was fully downloaded and later added into DataLumos. The event was well-received, and RDAP is looking forward to hosting another session sometime in June 2025.
Interested in holding your own Hackathon or data rescue programming? Members of the Data Rescue Project put together a toolkit, including templates to promote, organize, and run your own event. If you have any questions about running your own data rescue event, please reach out to datarescueproject@protonmail.com.
