Safeguarding Data/Research

We love our National Parks. Help us #SaveOurSigns We need your help to #SaveOurSigns

Get ready for some fun coming at you this Fourth of July weekend?! DRP has teamed up with some awesome UMN librarians and @safeguardingdata.bsky.social to #SaveOurSigns
Read more, spread the word, and get to taking those pics!
www.datarescueproject.org/save-our-sig...

Reconstruction Era National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service) The Reconstruction era,1861-1900 the historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, economi...

A benefit of the #SaveOurSigns campaign is we get to learn about all the national parks. Have you been to Reconstruction Era National Historical Park? It includes the Penn Center where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the SCLC staff planned the Poor People's Campaign! www.nps.gov/reer/index.htm

Welcome back covid.gov The Data Rescue Project, as a clearinghouse of data access points, loves highlighting partners and initiatives! Today, we feature Webrecorder, a company that develops web archiving tools and open sour...

New post! www.datarescueproject.org/welcome-back... Today, we feature @webrecorder.net and their user-friendly snapshots of government sites. They worked with @safeguardingdata.bsky.social on the Covid.gov mirror. This is a great example of what we can achieve with collaboration!

Well, we got the database of metadata, not the millions of articles themselves.
Something about copyright
#RIP #AaronSwartz

Not really, but one of our team did some investigating:
tldr.nettime.org/@ww/11408991...

tldr.nettime.org/@ww/11408997...

Es gibt etwas mehr Infos:
tldr.nettime.org/@ww/11408991...

tldr.nettime.org/@ww/11408997...

A long list of new deleted sentences, too many for this alttext. Some examples: * $78,000 to Palestinian activist group whose chairman was photographed attending an anniversary event celebrating the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Palestine terrorist group * $1 Million for foreign DEI programs, including ‘indigenous language technology’ in Guatemala, per non-public funding docs reviewed by WFB * $5 million for effort to treat eating disorders by “affirming” LGBTQIA+ patients’ sexual orientation and gender claims * Up to $3 million to defund the police advocacy group to pursue “climate justice” for convicts * $500,000 for research on “indigenous knowledge” – “a pseudoscience that posits native Indians possess unique insights into the workings of the universe” * Funded performances of play “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes,” in which God is bisexual and communists are good, in North Macedonia * Disbursed $15,000 to “queer” Muslim writers in India * Shelled out tens of thousands to create army of 2,500 LGBTQI+ allies

* Up to $10 million worth of USAID-funded meals went to al Qaeda-linked terrorist group the Nusra Front * $500,000 to group that “empowers women” in attempt to solve sectarian violence in Israel just ten days before Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks * $4.67 million to EcoHealth Alliance – one of the key NGOs funding bat virus research at Wuhan Institute of Virology — in late 2021. Later refused to answer key questions about the funding. * $7.9 million to a project that would teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid “binary-gendered language” * $1.3 million to Arab and Jewish photographers * $1.5 million for “art for inclusion of people with disabilities” * $2 million to promote “LGBT equality through entrepreneurship…in developing Latin American countries.” * Education Week: “Biden Administration Cites 1619 Project as Inspiration in History Grant Proposal” * VA took at least a dozen actions aimed at bolstering DEI during the Biden-Harris administration while the number of homeless veterans increased and the amount of claims in the VA’s backlog grew from ~211,000 to ~378,000 * NASA has allocated roughly $10 million to grants advancing DEI and “environmental justice” since 2020 * Following President Trump’s executive order on DEI at federal agencies, the ATF “quietly changing the job title of its former diversity officer… to ‘senior executive’ with the ATF.

* The Department of Labor requested additional funding in 2023 for “The Chief Evaluation Office for a new rigorous interagency evaluation of actions aimed at improving Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, and Accessibility across the federal workforce,” more than $6.5 million “to restore employee benefits programs that will advance equity by specifically addressing how opportunities can be expanded for underserved communities and vulnerable populations,” and $5 million “to evaluate actions aimed at improving diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) within the federal workforce.” * Fox Business: “FOX Business’ ‘Trouble in the Skies,’ a six month investigation of the FAA’s new hiring practices, uncovered changes that may put the nation’s flying public at risk as well as allegations that the newest air traffic control recruits had access to answers on a key test that helped them gain jobs with the FAA…Also uncovered was an FAA effort to promote diversity that discarded 3000 qualified college graduates with degrees in air traffic control despite their following FAA procedure and obtaining FAA accredited degrees.” --- the only new content: This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password:

host dei.gov dei.gov has address 192.0.66.36 whois 192.0.66.26 NetRange: 192.0.64.0 - 192.0.127.255 CIDR: 192.0.64.0/18 NetName: AUTOMATTIC NetHandle: NET-192-0-64-0-1 Parent: NET192 (NET-192-0-0-0-0) NetType: Direct Allocation OriginAS: AS2635 Organization: Automattic, Inc (AUTOM-93) RegDate: 2012-11-20 Updated: 2024-05-21 Comment: Geofeed https://as2635.network/geofeed.csv Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/192.0.64.0 OrgName: Automattic, Inc OrgId: AUTOM-93 Address: 60 29th Street #343 City: San Francisco StateProv: CA PostalCode: 94110 Country: US RegDate: 2011-10-05

My change-detection caught something big:
dei.gov (registered ~1 week ago)
Has been stale, then had this list put up & quickly password-protected.

Hosted by Wordpress/Automattic

cc @crampell.bsky.social

For those interested in the Data Rescue Tracker, keep in mind that we need to know/hear from you to be able to track where data is going. That's why we have a submission form. Let us know what you have and submit it! baserow.datarescueproject.org/form/dGIFuHv...

NCMEC: Websites The websites from National Center for Missing & Exploited Children need archiving; Data Rescue Project takes care of the datasets. (We are coordinating with them)

on it safeguarding-research.discourse.group/t/ncmec-webs...

will do!

👋 🇺🇸 Research Data is vanishing from US websites due to the new Administration so please help preserve it before it is too late--Contact Here for help👇

Please REPOST--Thanks

no.
All data that needs safeguarding will be safeguarded.
(as far as we are able - please don't request *another* 5 Petabytes)

👉 @datarescue2025.bsky.social
(We're already in close contact <3)

👋

Because its like Twitter 2009. Here is a starter pack for data initiatives in the google doc.

Now we eat lunch.
go.bsky.app/6a2mbNf

Ooooooo. This is pretty ...

Last night, we met the data-hoarding community. They are fab. Data hoarders meet data librarians. We have a lot in common. We love to categorize and organize our hoards.

We (and others) got a lot already, we're working on a way to make it accessible (this has to be done right)

Internet Archive

There are mirrors of parts,for example in Alexandria.
www.bibalex.org/en/Project/D...

Spoken as a historian:
The efforts to save, safeguard and to make available again of information is a kind of Dunkirk (as @adwright said).
But also like Casablanca.

An international effort to get as much research, information and cultural heritage to (decentralized) safety.
🛡️✊💜 […]

After that, I asked my buddy @micr0.dev to write a scraper for academia.edu to download as many things mentioning #transgender #nonbinary #intersex #queer etc. as possible.

The rest is history.

🧵2/2

To be crystal-clear:
Topics like #TransRights #Trans #Gender #Queer are no afterthoughts, they are the foundation of the whole endeavor.

#SafeguardingResearch started with me (@lavaeolus.bsky.social) cloning GitHub-repos of 'Mapping the Gay Guides' (with their consent) on January 13th.

🧵1/2

👋 - from the whole team (currently @lavaeolus.bsky.social writing)

✨ final call! Deadline extended to Feb 2nd for our 4S panel "Data Loss Reverberations". As US gov memory is erased we'd love to see more work on memory, power & the politics of data loss.

The call: artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/dal... w submission link. #4Sseattle2025

Please ping us if you know of data that needs safeguarding!
Either here or via the forum.

You can also ask if we already got stuff saved.

We're a team of ~12 core-members and many more in our periphery.
We got storage space and people looking to fill them with data in danger: datasets, research, cultural heritage, etc. pp.

Not only that, but we already got a few TBs saved and are working on making them accessible.
#CDC #NIH #NOAA

Safeguarding Research ✊ Organizing to safeguard as much publicly available research, GLAM-collections, etc. pp. as possible.

👋 - this is the official account of #SafeguardingResearch.
This effort started on Mastodon, but we want to reach as many people as possible.

We got a forum at safeguarding-research.discourse.group/about

If you want to contribute towards protecting research and knowledge from Trump's administration's purge maybe get involved with #SafeguardingResearch. @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy is doing a lot of work in that space, check out the link for more details.

fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/1...