With Government Data at Risk, These Volunteers Are Taking Action | Katina Magazine

"The Data Rescue Project is a grassroots volunteer effort to rescue data and raise awareness of the importance of government data. Primarily, we are working with federal data, but there’s data collected at all levels of government. The project emerged out of efforts of three data librarianship organizations: IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology), RDAP (Research Data Access & Preservation), and Data Curation Network. All three are closely intertwined, with overlapping memberships but very different focuses and interests.

The project also expanded beyond that because we have connections with people—librarians and non-librarians—in other communities who are interested in government data. For example, we have partners like PEDP (Public Environmental Data Partners) and the PEGI (Preservation of Electronic Government Information) project.

We’ve also, thorough this process, met other partners. A great example is SUCHO, Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online, a group that formed in response to the Ukrainian war. Another is Safeguarding Research and Culture..."