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If you rely on federal data for research, download everything you need now
February 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
If you rely on federal data for research, download everything you need now
MIT Libraries has a Checklist for USA Federal Data Backups, which provides instructions for downloading and archiving federal data for research purposes:
libraries.mit.edu/data-managem...
libraries.mit.edu/data-managem...
Checklist for USA federal data backups | Data management
Introduction The United States (US) federal government collects, aggregates, and disseminates a large volume of information and data. This content is used by researchers, policymakers, and many others...
libraries.mit.edu
February 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
MIT Libraries has a Checklist for USA Federal Data Backups, which provides instructions for downloading and archiving federal data for research purposes:
libraries.mit.edu/data-managem...
libraries.mit.edu/data-managem...
Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab has begun backing up data from data.gov, and you can email them to nominate data to save (lil@law.harvard.edu)
Data.gov Home - Data.gov
data.gov
February 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab has begun backing up data from data.gov, and you can email them to nominate data to save (lil@law.harvard.edu)
The End of Term Web Archive is a collaborative web crawling project that saves data at the end of presidential administrations. You can nominate data you think is important to be saved:
eotarchive.org
eotarchive.org
End of Term Web Archive
The End of Term Web Archive is a collaborative initiative that collects, preserves, and makes accessible United States Government websites at the end of presidential administrations.
eotarchive.org
February 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The End of Term Web Archive is a collaborative web crawling project that saves data at the end of presidential administrations. You can nominate data you think is important to be saved:
eotarchive.org
eotarchive.org
Researchers and students at the Chan School of Public Health ran a “data preservation marathon” to save as much federal research data as possible and upload it to the Harvard Dataverse or the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine:
dataverse.harvard.edu
web.archive.org
dataverse.harvard.edu
web.archive.org
Harvard DataverseDataCite-Logo
dataverse.harvard.edu
February 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Researchers and students at the Chan School of Public Health ran a “data preservation marathon” to save as much federal research data as possible and upload it to the Harvard Dataverse or the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine:
dataverse.harvard.edu
web.archive.org
dataverse.harvard.edu
web.archive.org
The Public Environmental Data Project focuses on federal environmental data and is accepting volunteers:
screening-tools.com
screening-tools.com
Data + Screening Tools
screening-tools.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The Public Environmental Data Project focuses on federal environmental data and is accepting volunteers:
screening-tools.com
screening-tools.com
The Data Liberation Project operates a suggestion form, which identifies data that should be saved for public use: www.data-liberation-project.org/about/
The Data Liberation Project — About
The what, why, how, when, where, and who of the Data Liberation Project.
www.data-liberation-project.org
February 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The Data Liberation Project operates a suggestion form, which identifies data that should be saved for public use: www.data-liberation-project.org/about/