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The US Census, conducted once every 10 years, has an importance that is difficult to overstate. The goal of every census is to “count everyone once, only once, and in the right place". While most people probably associate the Census with apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives,
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The DRP has been pleased to be part of a growing coalition concerned about the future of humanitarian archives amid challenges to foreign aid funding. In response to these concerns, a Steering Committee from around the world was convened by researchers at the University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict
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Since our earliest days, we have used a Google spreadsheet to track and manage the dataset rescue workflow, ensuring that data identified as at-risk are preserved, curated, and made accessible. The spreadsheet has served us well for 20 months and for thousands of rescues. However, we know it is
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As censorship of NPS materials continues, the Save Our Signs team has released new resources and a key update to the existing infrastructure to make it easier to understand what has changed. SOS Censorship Tracker Through both news reports and before-and-after photos, the SOS team is documenting reported
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We are excited to announce that over the course of this summer, due in no small part to the hard work of our wonderful metadata analyst and volunteer coordinator, we have overhauled our data rescue workflow! While our data inventory spreadsheet served us well, we are now transitioning to a
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Today’s post is an interview with our new Volunteer Coordinator! The DRP is able to offer this position because of the generous support of the Portfolio to Protect Science, a fiscally sponsored initiative of Global Impact, as well as other anonymous individual donors. We are so excited to have
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At just about every presentation, webinar, interview, and hackathon, not to mention in-passing conversations and speculative Bluesky posts, we’re asked: “But exactly how many datasets have been removed since January 2025?” As we have stated since the start, this is an impossible question to answer for a wide
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Below is a guest post from Michelle Crosby and Steve Pierson of the American Statistical Association. The American Statistical Association (ASA) “FedStat Health” project team recently released its mid-year status report, 2026 Midyear Update: Resources and Leadership Supporting Federal Statistics. As someone who spends every day monitoring, analyzing, and
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We recently learned that some regional facilities of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) are being targeted for closures, including the ones in San Francisco/San Bruno, CA and Chicago. These facilities hold important records especially to people in those areas. Among the 100,000 cubic feet of documents
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Today’s post is an interview with our new Metadata Analyst! The DRP is grateful to be able to offer this position throught the generous support of the Portfolio to Protect Science, a fiscally sponsored initiative of Global Impact, as well as other anonymous individual donors. We are so excited
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To celebrate 2026 Peer Review Week (September 14-18), PREreview is organizing a Review-a-thon: a global event where newly-formed and existing PREreview Clubs synchronously carry out collaborative reviews of preprints and datasets. Our goal is to showcase how human, community-driven peer review can help drive change
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During the Trump administration’s first year, sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) measures were widely removed from national surveys, programmatic data, and administrative systems. These changes often happened with little transparency, accountability, or evidence-based decision-making. While the removals have largely impacted data collection and dissemination beginning in