UChicago's Data Mirror
DRP partner's UChicago Data Mirror has started collecting federal data of interest to the University of Chicago community.
A key reward of working with the Data Rescue Project has been seeing the community come out and help us with our mission. Today, we amplify another partner group that is working to support their community: the UChicago Data Mirror Project.
The University of Chicago Library and Data Science Institute are collaborating to provide public access to large federal datasets (1 terabyte and above) through the UChicago Data Mirror Project. This project emerged as the need for access to federal datasets has become more at-risk in the past few months. This project takes publicly available datasets that have been traditionally hosted on government websites and "mirrors" the datasets in an easy-to-use format for researchers and—the public at large.
Currently, the full Census Bureau's TIGER/ Line Files and Shapefiles as well as the entirety of the historic and contemporary geographic data from the National Park Service are available, totaling 7 terabytes of data.
Check back often, as datasets are continually updated. UChicago Data Mirror Project hopes to have over 10 terabytes of federal data hosted by June.
