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This is very welcome news in the face of Trumpist depredations of US public data.
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01/30/preserving-public-u-s-federal-data/
"In recent months the Harvard Law School [@harvard_law] Library Innovation Lab [@harvardlil] 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...."
@faduda@mastodon.ie@petersuber
Backup the backups too.
He'll come for the university libraries next.
@faduda
Yes, LOCKSS ("Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe") is an important principle.
@faduda @petersuber And don't tell the university because they're all trying to figure out how to best appease the new government right now. If not actively voting for them already. Time to ship data overseas before it becomes an illegal unamerican act to do so.