[Bessig] Preserving open government data: Data Rescue event this weekend at University of Colorado

[Neal McBurnett]

As experts with data, we know that having access to data is the first requirement. But we face a risk that critical environmental data may disappear from the public domain, for political reasons.

The folks at Data Refuge (http://www.ppehlab.org/datarefuge) are organizing a hackathon event this weekend Feb 18-19 in which volunteers will be trained to search for federal data that hasn't been preserved yet and help do so, partnering with repositories at places like the Internet Archive, datarefuge.org, and a consortium of major research libraries.

Who knows what important and interesting data you may run across?

Sign up for the event, to be held at CU Boulder's beautiful Law Library, at

  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-rescue-boulder-tickets-31995427184 

Learn more at

 https://www.facebook.com/dataRescueBoulder/

End of Term Presidential Harvest 2016
 http://digital2.library.unt.edu/nomination/eth2016/about/

This is not the first time that there has been an End of Term Web harvest.  See previous ones at:

 http://eotarchive.cdlib.org/

Cheers,

Neal McBurnett                 http://neal.mcburnett.org/