Thanks so much to @davidprosser.bsky.social for inviting me and to Ed Fay for asking great questions at #RLUK26. I really enjoyed the conversation and talking about the successes and challenges of our work across the #DataRescue community and the @datarescueproject.org

Help Protect At-Risk Humanitarian #Archives (via @datarescueproject.org) www.datarescueproject.org/humanitarian... #datarescue

One element of #DataRescue that we need to make clear. In many cases, we were not "rescuing" original datasets. We were backing up & restoring access to stories, viz., etc., that make the data understandable to the public. Because at its core, this is about censoring the public's right to know.

Things Fall Apart: Lessons from a Defunded Data Repository | Data Science Journal Chinua Achebe’s award winning novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), chronicles the cultural disintegration that occurred during the early phases of the British colonization of Nigeria. Any moment of…

📚 What we're reading: "Things Fall Apart: Lessons from a Defunded Data Repository," by Alex de Sherbinin.

Alex shares an account of the data rescue efforts of the NASA SEDAC to offer lessons for other data repositories and to advocate for solidarity in the data community.

#datarescue #openscience

Data-rescuers, Newsjunkie.net's Prairie Fire project has the resource pages you need to help save our pubic knowledge before it's scrubbed from the web. (www.newsjunkie.net/article/prai...) #newsjunkie #prairiefire #datarescue

Every #Data Its User (Summary + Slides of Closing Keynote by Dr. Lynda Kellam and Mikala Narlock’s at #IDCC 2026) (via @datarescueproject.org) www.datarescueproject.org/every-data-i... #datarescue #libraries

Big DRP shout-out to one of our volunteers who worked on this project to make the data files in AtlasPlus more accessible!
#DataRescue #HealthData #PublicDataisaPublicGood
@altcdc.altgov.info

www.datarescueproject.org/atlasplus-da...

Reminder to regularly back-up your @zotero.org data, as their online sync are hosted on Amazon Web Services.

“Nullius in Weba” (have no confidence in any web service)
#ESR #zotero #dataRescue #librarian #academia #digitalScholarship

Reconstructing nineteenth-century Danube river water levels with transformer-based computer vision Abstract. We convert nineteenth-century Bavarian Danube gauge charts (1826–1894) into daily water-level series referenced to gauge zero through a novel semi-automated workflow combining light document...

essd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...

#ecology #hydrology #datarescue #digitalhumanities

Everyone in the DRP knows how wonderful and incredible @lyndamk.bsky.social is. We are thrilled for her and honored that she is representing #DataRescue at this international level. Congrats Lynda!!

New Journal Article (Essay): "Things Fall Apart: Lessons From a Defunded Data Repository" (via Data Science Journal, @codata-isc.bsky.social ) #SEDAC #CIESIN #repositories #datarescue @datarescueproject.org

bob from bobs burgers saying "i mean, i dont want to oversell it, but it changes you"

Welcome back to #MemeMonday!

Our volunteers are bun-believably great! Interested in joining us? Check out our website for more information on how to get started.

www.datarescueproject.org/faq/

#DataRescue

In this paper, I propose the concept of anticipatory maintenance to show that #DataRescue (2016/17) was not just “rescue” but maintenance work: future-oriented care to keep data accessible, acting as if loss had already begun by building redundancy and decentralized preservation arrangements.

My paper is out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social : “Emergency curation as anticipatory maintenance: Lessons from the 2016/2017 #DataRescue movement.” doi.org/10.1177/2053...

All of this. Fantastic keynote from @lyndamk.bsky.social and @mikalarae.bsky.social!

Mikala said it best (check the original post's replies): the DRP community, everyone involved, continuously reminds me that "hope is resistance."

#DataRescue #USFederalData

DIY Web Archiving | Zine Bakery Zine Bakery Bakeshop #2, by Quinn Dombrowski, Tessa Walsh, Anna Kijas, Ilya Kreymer, and Amanda Wyatt Visconti

For #LoveData26 week, #ICYMI for 2 free data advocacy zines: "DIY Web Archiving" to protect data (& other online things!) you care about 🔗⬇️, & a #datarescue zine documenting the recently removed Nat'l Park exhibit on the people Washington enslaved zinebakery.com/bakeshop/cen...

Banner with the words "Love Data Week" in bold letters. The word "Love" is formed with a heart pattern. Below, a hashtag reads "#LoveData26."

Where did the data go?
Since 2025, federal data on health & climate has been disappearing from gov websites. For #LoveData26, librarian Laura Hjerpe explores the legal fight to restore access and how you can help rescue at-risk info:
https://library.virginia.edu/news/2026/wheres-data
#DataRescue

Internet Archive Adds Searchable Access to Archived Pages From the CIA World Factbook Mark Graham at the Internet Archive tells us that searchable access to more than 18,000 archived pages from the CIA World Factbook found in The Wayback Machine’s collection are now available online…

Internet Archive Adds Searchable Access to Archived Pages From the CIA World Factbook - Library Journal infoDOCKET www.infodocket.com/2026/02/08/i...

#DataRescue

Data Rescue Projects receives support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to support data rescue efforts FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Since launching in February 2025, the Data Rescue Project has grown substantially. At this point, the DRP has enabled the rescue of more than 1,000 datasets from US Federal webs...

#Opendata and #datarescue
www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...

#publicinteresttechnology #publicinteresttech #civictech #datascience

Congrats!!! The Data Rescue Project is the Winner of the 2025 RDAP Work of the Year Award rdapassociation.org/news/13593532 #datarescue @datarescueproject.org @rdapassociation.bsky.social

A photo of gritty that says "Me and all my rescued federal data"

The DRP Steering Committee is in Philadelphia for a retreat, so here's a Philadelphia-based #DataRescue meme

Going to be thinking about more #DataRescue work that can be zineified: both for LOCKSS (lots of copies keeps stuff stafe! free distributed physical copies=definitely part of that) + part of preservation is how many folks stay aware of and read/use a thing

SOS! Help Save Our Signs Today The Save Our Signs Project team needs your help – and soon. The Washington Post reported on Tuesday morning that sites across the country have been targeted for erasure, including Grand Canyon, Glacie...

#censorship #politics #signs #DataRescue

'The Washington Post reported on Tuesday morning that sites across the country have been targeted for erasure...Save Our Signs needs your help to document these educational materials before they disappear.'

www.datarescueproject.org/sos-help/

DRP AMA 2026 Questions This form is to collect questions for the Data Rescue Project's first "Ask Me Anything!" to be held on Bluesky January 30, 6-8pm Eastern. If you can't attend or on Bluesky, don't worry-- you can…

Have any #DataRescue burning questions?? We have just the thing...

We're hosting an #AMA. Join us on January 30, 6-8pm Eastern through bluesky! Please submit your questions through our form.

If you can't make it, there is an option to receive a response via email!

Government’s historic role as trusted information source is under threat The U.S. government for decades has been the world’s leading provider of reliable data. Many researchers wonder if that is still the case.

Posted within minutes of each other: one article about the #DataRescue movement and one about the #SaveOurSigns efforts.

@washingtonpost.com

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Backing up Spotify We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirro...

#Spotify #music #metadata #DataRescue

'It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.'

annas-archive.li/blog/backing...

Federal GIS Data Saved and Archived The following post was written by Frank Donnelly, the Head of GIS and Data Services at the Brown University Library and one of our DRP rescuers! The Data Rescue Project is pleased to announce that we...

New From @datarescueproject.org: Federal #GIS #Data Saved and Archived www.datarescueproject.org/hifld-data-s... #datarescue

Making 10M government PDF documents searchable Government organizations love to distribute documents as PDF files. They are easy to forward and to print. The problem is when you want to find and access them later among millions of other files. …

Making 10M government PDF documents searchable flowingdata.com/2025/11/26/m...

"The code for GovScape is open source and available on GitHub."

#OpenData #OpenGov #OCR #DataRescue #GovDocs

Guest Post: A Day in the Life with Federal Government Data Today, we have the fourth post in the series from Claire McKay Bowen and Aaron R. Williams to help diverse audiences understand and support the federal statistical system. Everyone living in the…

We often discuss how public data influences our everyday lives whether we acknowledge it or not. This week's guest article highlights your daily interactions with public data: www.datarescueproject.org/guest-post-a...
#PublicData #DataRescue

Interest Form: Repository Crisis Scorecards Thanks for your interest in the Repository Crisis Scorecards (RCS) project, funded by the Sloan Foundation. This form is designed to gather general interest from individuals who want to stay informed…

What can you do?
🤝 Sign up to let us know you’re interested: www.esipfed.org/rcs-interest
🔄 Repost to help us spread the word.
🔗 Learn more about the project: www.esipfed.org/repository-r...

#DataCenters #DataStewards #DataManagement #BigData #OpenData #DataRescue #DigitalPreservation