[Bessig] Data Rescue and the shutdown

Cathy Smith cathy.smith at noaa.gov
Tue Jan 29 12:50:43 EST 2019


I know about the way back machine (though I believe it doesn't go into 
databases or content like that).

I was more curious about the data. There were many groups rescuing data. 
What happened to that data?

Cathy

On 1/29/19 10:48 AM, Mike Daniels wrote:
> Hi Cathy,
>
> wrt old web page content, have you ever tried 
> http://web.archive.org/? While it is certainly not perfect, I've used 
> this tool to recover offline content.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Mike Daniels
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 10:43 AM Cathy Smith via Bessig 
> <bessig at lists.esipfed.org <mailto:bessig at lists.esipfed.org>> wrote:
>
>     All
>
>     After Trump became president, there were large 'data rescue' efforts
>     that were occurring throughout the US. During the government
>     shutdown I
>     thought perhaps NOAA data could be obtained from the archives of
>     those
>     data rescue activities for use by university and other non federal
>     scientists. But I didn't see any reference anywhere during the
>     shutdown
>     to the data that was rescued.
>
>     Does anyone know if that data is available somewhere? Are the
>     groups who
>     did the hackathons updating data files? It seems the shutdown
>     would have
>     been the perfect opportunity to have made available the rescued data.
>
>     Also, now that some government orgs have websites with less info than
>     they used to have, is anyone making the webpages that were rescued
>     available to the public?
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Cathy Smith
>
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