Preserving Public U.S. Federal Data | Library Innovation Lab

"In recent months the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab has created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government data that is most valuable to researchers, scholars, civil society and the public at large across every field. To begin, we have collected major portions of the datasets tracked by data.gov, federal Github repositories, and PubMed....

This effort, focusing on datasets rather than web archives, collects and will make available hundreds of thousands of government datasets that researchers depend on. This work joins the efforts of many other organizations who preserve public knowledge....

In coming weeks we will share full data and metadata for our collection so far. We look forward to seeing how our archive will be used by scholarly researchers and the public...."