Related. "Researchers rush to preserve federal health databases before they disappear from government websites"
journalistsresource.org/home/r…

"Tips for preserving websites:
* To find the missing websites, go to Wayback Machine and type in the website’s URL in the search bar.
* If you’re concerned that certain websites or web pages may be removed, you can suggest federal websites and content that end in .gov, .mil and .com to the End of Term Web Archive.
* You can suggest federal climate and environmental databases to Environmental Data and Governance Initiative.
* You can suggest databases to The Data Liberation Project, which is run by MuckRock and Big Local News.
* Tell science journalist Maggie Koerth what CDC data you've downloaded and whether you've made them publicly available...."

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Researchers rush to preserve government health data

Journalists have long relied on federal health data for their reporting. We include several tips that they can use to help researchers preserve the data.

^{Naseem S. Miller (The Journalist's Resource)}

Related. "Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos."
nature.com/articles/d41586-025…

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Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos

The mass-archiving effort is in response to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removing some of its web pages.

^{Mallapaty, Smriti}

Update. "Inside the race to archive the US government’s websites"
technologyreview.com/2025/02/0…

Surveying a range of initiatives with good clarity on the obstacles.

"There are questions about whether scraping the data will really be enough. Restoring websites and complex data sets is often not a simple process.…'The repairs and attempts to recover are sometimes insurmountable where we need continuous readings of data.' 'All of this data archiving work is a temporary Band-Aid,' says Gosnell. 'If data sets are removed and are no longer updated, our archived data will become increasingly stale and thus ineffective at informing decisions over time.' "

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Update. "The Public Environmental Data Partners [#PEDP] are committed to preserving and providing public access to federal environmental data. We are a volunteer coalition of several environmental, justice, and policy organizations, researchers across several universities, archivists, and students who rely on federal datasets and tools to support critical research, advocacy, policy, and litigation work. To gather insights on what data to preserve, we reached out to our networks, which consist largely of environmental justice groups and networks, state and local government climate offices, and academic researchers. We compiled a large list of federal databases and tools, and prioritized them based on their relative impact, our confidence that we could archive them, and the relative effort it would take to obtain and archive them."
screening-tools.com/

Continuously updated.

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Update. "This is Version 2 of the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, released by the Council on Environmental Quality [#CEQ] in December 2024. Although the tool remains unchanged, public access through the White House was discontinued on January 22, 2025. We re-created Version 2 and made it publicly accessible."
screening-tools.com/climate-ec…

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Update. "Today we [Harvard Law School @harvard_law Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil] released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. It will be updated daily as new datasets are added to data.gov. This is the first release in our new data vault project to preserve and authenticate vital public datasets for academic research, policymaking, and public use."
lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/…

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Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab

Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...

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