Caro
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Caro
@caropjim.bsky.social
Waste and data researcher. I share what I know. Zero waste policy data analyst.

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Missed our data preservation event yesterday? We've uploaded the entire discussion on our YouTube channel:
Federal data is disappearing. Meet the teams working to rescue it and learn how you can help.
Since the start of the new Trump administration, hundreds of federal data sets and government websites have gone offline without warning, sometimes returning...
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February 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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@copafs.bsky.social has drafted a letter to Senate & House leadership expressing opposition to removal of public data & requesting Congress take action to restore any data removed and ensure a similar data purge does not occur again. The deadline is February 10: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Protecting and Preserving Public Access to Federal Data
February **, 2025 Re: Protecting and Preserving Public Access to Federal Data Dear Majority Leader Thune, Minority Leader Schumer, Speaker Johnson, and Minority Leader Jeffries, We write to express o...
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February 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Penn is getting a lot of questions about Data Refuge. That effort no longer exists, but several efforts are currently active. I've created a doc from what I & others have suggested. I'll update as I hear more. Feel free to share or suggest: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Data Rescue Efforts
Data / Website Rescue Efforts End of Term Crawl - The main coordinated effort to archive websites, but datasets have been more of a challenge. EDGI - They have been focused on environmental data. A ...
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February 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The tiktok ban has me reflecting on some questions:

- how do our digital communities translate to our in-person life?

- are they still there when the digital aspect of it is gone? What does that say about resiliency?

- when we say “communities”, what do we even mean?
January 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM