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Update for November 2025 We hope everyone is having a good November. We have a few updates from the DRP Steering Committee ❤️🛟
14.11.2025 19:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NCES Datalabs Tables: Rescue Complete! If you have been following along with the Data Rescue Project newsletter, you have been receiving _occasional updates_ on our struggle to find and download all of the summary tables that were created by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). These tables are useful because they make it easy
13.11.2025 14:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Conversation about Save Our Signs Podcast: A Massive Archiving Effort at National Parks (with Jenny McBurney and Lynda Kellam)This week we have a conversation between Sam and two of the leaders of the independent volunteer archiving project Save Our Signs, an effort to archive national park signs and monument placards.404 MediaSamantha Cole
10.11.2025 15:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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RDAP Hackathon and November Office Hours Fall is in full swing– and as the holidays approach, we just want to remind you all how grateful we are for your participation and support! Don’t forget that you can receive a sticker as a small token of our appreciation – _fill out this short Google_
07.11.2025 16:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Guest Post: Together Through Chaos: Reflections on Community-Driven Data Rescue DRP co-founder and Steering Committee Member Mikala Narlock recently spoke at the Midwest Data Librarian Symposium. Below, she shares an overview of the presentation (slides available for review) and her own reflections. * * * One thing the Midwest does exceptionally well is Fall: the leaves change slowly, and then all at once;
06.11.2025 16:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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 websites, representing over 80 statistical programs and offices, all due entirely to the work of our more
04.11.2025 16:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Guest Post: The Library Innovation Lab Launches Data.gov Archive Search This week's guest post is from the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab. As October draws to a closer, we are grateful to this team for their efforts to update Data.Gov Archive, which now includes a search interface to support the discoverability and usability of federal data.
31.10.2025 15:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Support Dearly Departed Datasets Our federal data are meeting an untimely end. Help track their final days.🪦
27.10.2025 18:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Update for October 2025 Hello from the DRP Steering Committee! We have a few updates. ❤️🛟 **Announcements** * Join us for office hours this coming Wednesday, October 29, at 4:30 pm Eastern. The HIFLD volunteers will be taking over to chat about the project! _Use this link for the office hours._ Thank
24.10.2025 17:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Events! RDAP Hackathon and HIFLD Office Hours Before we talk about events, we would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to our community of volunteers for your interest in and support for the project to back up HIFLD Open. HIFLD Open was a collection of open datasets that acted as a “digital go bag”
23.10.2025 18:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Guest Post: Former Climate.gov team building Climate.us—a new bridge between scientists and the public We have a guest post this week from the Climate.us team. We were very excited to talk with Rebecca Lindsey and learn more about their team's plans for Climate.us, especially their rescue of the _Fifth National Climate Assessment_. * * * In 2024, if you googled “climate,”
21.10.2025 17:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Save Our Signs Launches the People’s Archive of National Park Signs _The Save Our Signs project_ (SOS), a community-driven effort to preserve National Park Service (NPS) interpretive materials before they are removed from public view, is proud to announce the launch of the Save Our Signs Archive, a collection of photographs taken by visitors at National Parks. This open access “
13.10.2025 20:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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National Digital Stewardship Alliance Excellence Award The Data Rescue Project was pleased to receive an _NDSA Excellence Award_ last week. We were honored to be recognized alongside other incredible librarians, archivists, and leaders. Below is the transcript of remarks delivered by Lynda Kellam. We would like to express our sincere appreciation to all our volunteers
12.10.2025 22:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Guest Post: Eggs Don’t Grow on Trees and Neither Does Data: How to Teach K-12 Students Where Data Comes From Second in a series of posts about federal data and the Federal Statistical System.
06.10.2025 11:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Updates from the DRP & Office Hours Our DRP Steering Committee is so thankful for all the work of our volunteers and our partners. We are grateful to be part of this incredible community working to preserve and raise awareness of the importance of public data. We want you to know how significant you all are to
26.09.2025 17:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Guest Post: The Forgotten Egg: The Importance of Public Federal Data in the United States The Federal Statistical System impacts everyone in the US (and many globally) whether they realize it or not.
23.09.2025 19:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Updates from the SaveOurSigns Campaign Join us on September 17 to learn more about Save Our Signs!
16.09.2025 01:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Federal Statistical System Under Threat Learn about the Federal Statistical System and ways to support it. Public data is a public good!
02.09.2025 16:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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DRP Office hours for September Join the Data Rescue Project office hours this September!
31.08.2025 16:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Save Our Signs: Let’s Get It Done Help us finish strong with #SaveOurSigns this Labor Day. Plus, if you’re in NYC, come see us in person!
26.08.2025 10:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Teaching with Disappearing Data: Invitation to Participate in Study Today, we have another guest post from a Data Rescue Project volunteer. Jeanine is conducting a survey of instructors who teach with government data. In addition, we will have our regular office hours this week on Wednesday, August 20, from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Eastern. Please join
18.08.2025 13:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NCES Tables: Rescues in Progress Since we started the Data Rescue Project (DRP), we have received many requests for saving the tables libraries associated with the National Center for Education Statistics surveys. The tables libraries in DataLab provide quick reference and summary statistics for researchers of the work the NCES does: research on safety in
11.08.2025 12:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Support for the BLS We imagine that many of you have already heard the news about last night's removal of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner, Erika McEntarfer. We are dismayed by these actions and join our partner groups, the _Friends of BLS_, _COPAFS_, _APDU_, and others, in calling on Congress
02.08.2025 17:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Flood Predictions: A Data User Story Today, we are back to featuring some data user stories. Thank you to _Natasha Randall_ for sending this post about the importance of public data for her research on flood prediction. * * * I am a PhD student, and my research topic is on developing deep learning (AI) models for flood prediction.
28.07.2025 12:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rescuing USAID Data We are excited about the upcoming RDAP Hackathon! This time they are partnering with DataFirst and ICPSR to rescue data that was previously publicly-available on the USAID's knowledge platform. Date: **August 7, 2025** Time: **10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Eastern)** Registration link: **https://rdapassociation.org/event-6266055**
23.07.2025 15:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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UCLA's LPPI and the Latino Data Hub We are excited to partner with the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) to highlight updates to their Latino Data Hub. Come to their webinar to learn more about the Latino Data Hub and the power of public data! If you are keeping up with us, check out our
21.07.2025 13:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Guest Post: Sonification and Data Rescue 🛟 At the recent IASSIST conference, we learned of an effort to sonify the work connected to our Data Rescue Project Tracker. Sonification is a fascinating area used in a variety of fields. This project conveys well the urgency we all felt during the early months of 2025, so we invited
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We love our National Parks. Help us #SaveOurSigns We need your help to #SaveOurSigns
03.07.2025 14:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Future of the USAID DHS Program _The Population Reference Bureau_ recently released a report called "Collaborating for Action on the Future of _Demographic and Health Surveys_." It summarizes discussions held in May about the USAID's _Demographic and Health Surveys_. DRP volunteers, who have fielded researcher questions about these surveys, were honored to
01.07.2025 23:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Data Rescue Project Launches New Portal The _Data Rescue Project_ (DRP) is excited to announce the launch of the _DRP Portal_—a milestone in our collective effort to protect and preserve at-risk public information. As of June 2025, DRP volunteers and other organizations have rescued over 1,100 public datasets from 80+ government offices. Started
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