The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge | The New Yorker

"Kellam was encouraged, but worried about a lack of coördination. What if the backups languished on private hard drives? What if archivists duplicated one another’s work? She created a Google Doc to centralize information about preëxisting initiatives—an archive of archives, with detailed instructions on how to contribute to each. “It was really just meant to be a place where people could go and nominate things for the End of Term crawl,” she said. Within days, though, there were more than a hundred people in the document at any given time. Kellam met with the heads of other data-librarian organizations, and together they founded the Data Rescue Project to preserve the enormous data sets that website-focussed efforts had missed...."