The slides of my talk at #why2025 "Safeguarding Research & Culture: Save public data from the digital bookburnings!" are now online: https://hu.berlin/SRC-WHY2025 More context: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/B8DANE/ #safeguardingresearch #sciop

Some of you may have seen the news re National #climate Assessment Reports https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/climate/wright-national-climate-assessments-updating A friendly reminder: They are all accessible here in this archive from November https://globalchange.govarchive.us/ As well as on […]

I will be at #WHY25 & give a talk about @SafeguardingResearch#why25 https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/B8DANE/ (Saturday, 22:35 - 23:00; should be the last talk of the day^^) Sadly, I need to leave Sunday before lunch :( If you want to meet, feel free to ping me!

This might be of interest to some attendees of the libraries meeting at #DH2025, who just mentioned the need to safeguard data. From: @SafeguardingResearch#dh2025https://fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch/114852130478020946

A group dealing with at-risk educational materials is looking for help: "The Digital Public Goods Library is looking for librarian volunteers who have experience cataloging materials with education-related metadata in a digital library environment, to assist in identifying and making available […]

@404mediaco reports on #saveoursigns: https://www.404media.co/save-our-signs-national-parks-archive-qr-codes/ Quoting Jenny McBurney, whose work has been invaluable for this effort: "There has been SO much work over the last 30 years to widen the lens and nuance the interpretations that are […]

Data comes in many forms, but not every time there is a dataset ready to be saved: We, together with @datarescueproject.org and partners need YOUR help in preserving American history – but this time, we need you to put on your ranger hat and boots, and trek to your local national park to […]

Very nice article about saving academic data, digital sovereignty, and some criticism re lack of transparency: https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/saving-academic-data-is-easier-than-you-think-and-you-can-do-it-too Featuring @frepa314 & @lavaeolus #safeguardingresearch

A benefit of the #SaveOurSigns campaign is we get to learn about all the national parks. Have you been to Reconstruction Era National Historical Park? It includes the Penn Center where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the SCLC staff planned the Poor People's Campaign! www.nps.gov/reer/index.htm

Data comes in many forms, but not every time there is a dataset ready to be saved: We, together with @datarescueproject.org and partners need YOUR help in preserving American history – but this time, we need you to put on your ranger hat and boots, and trek to your local national park to […]

"Over the past five months, more than 3,000 taxpayer-funded data sets—many congressionally mandated—collected by federal agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Center for Education Statistics, and the Census Bureau, have been caught in the cross fire." […]

Are here people working in/with Cultural Heritage (#glam) in #hungary ? Or know people who know people? :) Feel free to ping me here, via matrix @schoeneh:matrix.org, or via Signal (on request)

Heute Abend (18 bis 19 Uhr) werde ich im Kontext @SafeguardingResearch live bei 'Der Tag. Ein Thema, viele Perspektiven' zum Thema "Angriff auf Wikipedia – der Kampf ums freie Wissen" https://www.hr-inforadio.de/programm/der-tag/der-tag-angriff-auf-wikipedia--der-kampf-ums-freie-wissen […]

@SafeguardingResearch Holy cow, this blew up. Thanks for your attention, lovely people of the fediverse. If you want to reproduce what I did, here's a rough guide: 1) Grab an old PC / Laptop / Raspberry pi, whatever you have lying around. If it has a network connection and some storage, it's […]

@SafeguardingResearch Anyways, big thanks to @lavaeolus and @jonny for being the unlikely cyberpunk heroes we need right now. Thanks to your hard work we have a fighting chance to keep some climate, biosciences, etc data from disappearing forever.

@SafeguardingResearch What I really did was dust off a bunch of random junk-drawer hard drives and tinker with LVM and docker settings for an evening. If you think "I bet I can do this in half an hour", please go ahead and help the swarm. If you haven't the foggiest idea what this is about […]

The outright wrecking of the scientific infrastructure in the US under the current administration chilled me to my bone. Kept me doomscrolling. But I finally found a way to do something positive, in a small way: I dedicated some storage space and a bit of my internet connection to a […]

Just realized that @datarescueproject.org is four months old as of today. We shouldn't need to exist, but here we are. And we are SO very thankful for all of you and our volunteers. These data are our data. They are the people's data.

“People have already tried to erase research [in the past]. We want to make sure that won’t happen again.” Article on France24, featuring Data Rescue Project, PEDP, and @SafeguardingResearch. I'm glad they let me point out the core ideas of our effort. ✊🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 […]

PANGAEA & their data rescue in Nature: "Pangaea’s decision to join the cause followed distress calls from members of the science community and from staff members inside NOAA — an agency that monitors Earth’s atmosphere and climate and provides weather-forecasting services." […]

A mention of @SafeguardingResearch in the BBC 🥳 "Multiple organisations including the Internet Archive, a non-profit, Safeguarding Research and Culture, and the Data Rescue Project, are now engaged in activities alongside the OEDP to rescue this data from oblivion." Featuring quotes from our […]

A collaboration between @webrecorder and @SafeguardingResearch - a complete archive of covid-gov from April 11th 2025: https://app.browsertrix.com/explore/usgov-archive/collections/covid-gov #covid #safeguardingresearch

Archiving underway. #SafeguardingResearch cc @SafeguardingResearch#safeguardingresearchhttps://weird.autos/@rootwyrm/114343301792346250

"While waiting for possible international initiatives, volunteers are acting to save what can be by archiving websites and not-too-large databases. [...] a data rescue group, Safeguarding Research and Culture. [...]" We're getting coverage :) […]

Today marks 3 month of the existence of @SafeguardingResearch (in hindsight) 🎉🎉🎉 Quite fittingly, today we added a whole bunch of #trans related material: https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/114341509404502292 For anyone interested in a (short) history […]

Today marks 3 month of the existence of @SafeguardingResearch (in hindsight) 🎉🎉🎉 Quite fittingly, today we added a whole bunch of #trans related material: https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/114341509404502292 For anyone interested in a (short) history […]

👋 re #pubmed: There have been (very valid) concerns about PubMed since the beginning, we did always point people to Europe PMC. The question now is, do you know of things in PubMed, but not already in Europe PMC? If so, please add them here: https://forum.safeguar.de/t/pubmed-europe-pmc/680

i think this is very cool. they said they were gonna take down NOAA-OAR's AWS web infra, including a bunch of their websites. but then y'all were like 'fuck that' and now there are a bunch of high quality warc/wacz/zim/and raw html copies https://sciop.net/datasets/noaa-webrips

It got lost in the many urgent things, but today I'm at the conference: "Who Owns Free Knowledge? Examining Power, Platformization, and the Promise of the Commons" from @Weizenbaum_Institut and @wikimediaDE https://www.wikimedia.de/veranstaltungen/konferenz-who-owns-free-knowledge/ I'll be […]

#kritis #aws #safeguardingresearch

We (@SafeguardingResearch) need urgent help with archiving websites & datasets from NOAA: https://forum.safeguar.de/t/noaa-all-services-urgent/569 If you can contribute, please consider doing so. #noaa #safeguardingresearch #data #weather

👋 anyone know of articles/blogs and/or has personal experience with: AI-bot scraper hinderung web archiving / web preservation let me know! #safeguardingresearch #digipres

Someone just uploaded a set of torrents of the Library Innovation Lab's data.gov archive, formerly only available via s3. Get em while they're hot: https://sciop.net/datasets/harvard-lil-data-gov-archive @SafeguardingResearch

I would like to have either a mirror or an automatic download (every few hours) of a public #tableau workbook. All download options are enabled Does anyone have an idea? #data #dataviz #safeguardingresearch

The first (of many) safeguarded material from the #smithsonian: All 217 episodes of the Sidedoor podcast https://sciop.net/datasets/smithsonian-pod-sidedoor https://www.si.edu/sidedoor/ #safeguardingresearch

For @SafeguardingResearch we've been using browsertrix (running locally) a lot - can 100% recommend! @webrecorder https://digipres.club/@webrecorder/114243792637000712 #safeguardingresearch

Please share this widely! https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/114240804823099278

Please share this widely! https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/114240804823099278

Update re #safeguardingresearch: Our index/catalog is in open beta 🎉🎉 https://sciop.net We're looking for more contributors & people to check our code for potential vulnerabilities and bugs: https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop Also, feel free to contact us via [email protected] or […]

Again in Dutch media :D "De angst is dat data verloren zullen gaan" ("The fear is that data will be lost" https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/03/25/de-angst-is-dat-data-verloren-zullen-gaan-a4887588 #safeguardingresearch

Question re #safeguardingresearch We encounter 'web applications' that our current method of archiving don't preserve. Things like https://imls.gov/imls-dashboard We are mostly using https://github.com/openzim/zimit to create WARC files and combining them into a single ZIM. (This uses the […]

For @SafeguardingResearch we're looking for some imagery to be used on our landing page (nearly finished). Feel free to post/link to images you associate with #safeguardingresearch & our mission: https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/about (the source needs to be attributed)

[Scholarly publishing infrastructure and knowledge inequality] Obviously, some of the large and growing researcher communities globally, a.o. from BRICS countries, are disproportionately affected by such restrictions. But today, many researchers in the USA are affected by active restrictions […]

This is vile - on an ontological level. Gender identities before and after in the ontology of the National Cancer Institute: via @ww https://tldr.nettime.org/@ww/114160381360440438 context: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/114157343433852950

Update: We got the NCI ontology, including a history of former versions etc. pp. All in all ~25GB. https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/114157343433852950

@Cmungall slightly buried the lede here: https://genomic.social/@Cmungall/114152616246522594 Specifically, they have deprecated the concept of being trans in the National Cancer Institute linked data vocabulary. This means at a fundamental level, it is impossible to merely _represent the […]

Calling #DigitalHumanities as well as all academics working with data models: Do you know of other ontologies at the whim of the US administration? https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/114157343433852950 #ontology #semanticweb @academicchatter @academicsunite

Help wanted: Markdown rendering for longtext fields (#python) https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop/issues/174 Initial rendering already implemented, but needs some more work […]