Safeguarding Research/Culture

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The slides of my talk at #WHY2025 "Safeguarding Research & Culture: Save public data from the digital bookburnings!" are now online:
https://hu.berlin/SRC-WHY2025

More context: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/B8DANE/

#SafeguardingResearch #SciOp

Some of you may have seen the news re National #Climate Assessment Reports
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/climate/wright-national-climate-assessments-updating

A friendly reminder:
They are all accessible here in this archive from November https://globalchange.govarchive.us/

As well as on […]

Safeguarding Research & Culture: Save public data from the digital bookburnings! WHY2025 Archives are vulnerable. Modern archival methods are robust, but no archive or institute alone can withstand the threats we are currently facing. Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC) is creating an alternative infrastructure for archiving and disseminating of cultural heritage & scientific knowledge. We focus on publicly available material under threat of being deleted or altered. We preserve this data using open standards, open-source software, distributed storage and your help!

I will be at #WHY25 & give a talk about @SafeguardingResearch:
https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/B8DANE/
(Saturday, 22:35 - 23:00; should be the last talk of the day^^)

Sadly, I need to leave Sunday before lunch :(

If you want to meet, feel free to ping me!

This might be of interest to some attendees of the libraries meeting at #DH2025, who just mentioned the need to safeguard data.

From: @SafeguardingResearch
https://fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch/114852130478020946

cont.:
"The remote team places high value on working collaboratively with productivity and project management tools. If that sounds like you, please contact them at openforeducation@gmail.com"
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"Working with collection partners and archives, this requires a working knowledge of OpenRefine for data transformations and a basic knowledge of HTML, XML, and JSON to enrich existing metadata and fill in gaps where needed. Subject matter expertise in any particular field, as well as […]

A group dealing with at-risk educational materials is looking for help:

"The Digital Public Goods Library is looking for librarian volunteers who have experience cataloging materials with education-related metadata in a digital library environment, to assist in identifying and making available […]

@404mediaco reports on #SaveOurSigns:
https://www.404media.co/save-our-signs-national-parks-archive-qr-codes/

Quoting Jenny McBurney, whose work has been invaluable for this effort:
"There has been SO much work over the last 30 years to widen the lens and nuance the interpretations that are […]

Data comes in many forms, but not every time there is a dataset ready to be saved:

We, together with @datarescueproject.org and partners need YOUR help in preserving American history – but this time, we need you to put on your ranger hat and boots, and trek to your local national park to […]

Saving academic data is easier than you think (and you can do it too) - Delta Now that important academic data in the United States of America may disappear, a large group of European academics have started duplicating and sharing that data. Henrik Schönemann, the initiator, is even looking beyond this. “Universities must have digital sovereignty.”

Very nice article about saving academic data, digital sovereignty, and some criticism re lack of transparency:
https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/saving-academic-data-is-easier-than-you-think-and-you-can-do-it-too

Featuring @frepa314 & @lavaeolus
#SafeguardingResearch

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

Data comes in many forms, but not every time there is a dataset ready to be saved:

We, together with @datarescueproject.org and partners need YOUR help in preserving American history – but this time, we need you to put on your ranger hat and boots, and trek to your local national park to […]

"Over the past five months, more than 3,000 taxpayer-funded data sets—many congressionally mandated—collected by federal agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Center for Education Statistics, and the Census Bureau, have been caught in the cross fire." […]

Are here people working in/with Cultural Heritage (#GLAM) in #Hungary ?
Or know people who know people? :)

Feel free to ping me here, via matrix @schoeneh:matrix.org, or via Signal (on request)

Heute Abend (18 bis 19 Uhr) werde ich im Kontext @SafeguardingResearch live bei 'Der Tag. Ein Thema, viele Perspektiven' zum Thema "Angriff auf Wikipedia – der Kampf ums freie Wissen"

https://www.hr-inforadio.de/programm/der-tag/der-tag-angriff-auf-wikipedia--der-kampf-ums-freie-wissen […]

SciOp - Public Information Preservation Preserving Public Information

@aizuchi @moritz_negwer Take your pick :)
We got 349 torrents making up 104.1 TiB (193 datasets) and new ones are always coming

https://sciop.net

@SafeguardingResearch Holy cow, this blew up. Thanks for your attention, lovely people of the fediverse.

If you want to reproduce what I did, here's a rough guide:

1) Grab an old PC / Laptop / Raspberry pi, whatever you have lying around. If it has a network connection and some storage, it's […]

@SafeguardingResearch Anyways, big thanks to @lavaeolus and @jonny for being the unlikely cyberpunk heroes we need right now. Thanks to your hard work we have a fighting chance to keep some climate, biosciences, etc data from disappearing forever.

@SafeguardingResearch

What I really did was dust off a bunch of random junk-drawer hard drives and tinker with LVM and docker settings for an evening.

If you think "I bet I can do this in half an hour", please go ahead and help the swarm.

If you haven't the foggiest idea what this is about […]

The outright wrecking of the scientific infrastructure in the US under the current administration chilled me to my bone. Kept me doomscrolling. But I finally found a way to do something positive, in a small way: I dedicated some storage space and a bit of my internet connection to a […]

Just realized that @datarescueproject.org is four months old as of today. We shouldn't need to exist, but here we are. And we are SO very thankful for all of you and our volunteers. These data are our data. They are the people's data.

“People have already tried to erase research [in the past]. We want to make sure that won’t happen again.”

Article on France24, featuring Data Rescue Project, PEDP, and @SafeguardingResearch.
I'm glad they let me point out the core ideas of our effort.
✊🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 […]

PANGAEA & their data rescue in Nature:
"Pangaea’s decision to join the cause followed distress calls from members of the science community and from staff members inside NOAA — an agency that monitors Earth’s atmosphere and climate and provides weather-forecasting services." […]

@jik thanks for the mention, we're working on it now

A mention of @SafeguardingResearch in the BBC 🥳
"Multiple organisations including the Internet Archive, a non-profit, Safeguarding Research and Culture, and the Data Rescue Project, are now engaged in activities alongside the OEDP to rescue this data from oblivion."

Featuring quotes from our […]

Webrecorder (@webrecorder@digipres.club) 67 Posts, 60 Following, 295 Followers · Webrecorder provides sophisticated solutions for everyone to accurately archive the complex, interactive Web.

A collaboration between @webrecorder and @SafeguardingResearch - a complete archive of covid-gov from April 11th 2025:
https://app.browsertrix.com/explore/usgov-archive/collections/covid-gov

#Covid #SafeguardingResearch

RootWyrm 🇺🇦:progress: (@rootwyrm@weird.autos) Attached: 1 image #infosec people, THIS is big and you need it in front of management RIGHT NOW. MITRE has informed the CVE board members that effective TONIGHT, funding to run CVE and CWE is effectively gone. The US federal government contracts MITRE to run these programs including both management, operations, and infrastructure. This not only could but almost certainly will result in disruptions to CVE and CWE including a halt of all operations if new contracts/funding are not secured.

Archiving underway.
#SafeguardingResearch cc @SafeguardingResearch
https://weird.autos/@rootwyrm/114343301792346250

"While waiting for possible international initiatives, volunteers are acting to save what can be by archiving websites and not-too-large databases. [...] a data rescue group, Safeguarding Research and Culture. [...]"

We're getting coverage :) […]