Instructions for Saving Endangered Data: It’s time to get decentralized.

"For example, right now Climate scientists are rushing to back up climate datasets. For decades they have relied on the US government to host a huge amount of the climate data that they rely on. The data have been centralized on a few servers and those servers have been treated as the “authoritative” locations for the data. Now researchers are worried that it’s not safe to rely on those servers any more. This has triggered a massive effort of #DataRescue and Guerilla Archiving."