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Archive.org Works With Others to Back up EPA and Other Government Data

posted by martyb on Friday December 16 2016, @11:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the redundancy++ dept.

Heard on CBC radio from Toronto/Ottawa and also just posted to BBC --
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38324045

A special archiving event is being held in collaboration with Archive's End of Term project. Since 2008 this has saved US government websites at risk during government transitions.

Canadian "guerrilla" archivists will be assisting a rushed effort to preserve US government climate data.

Environmentalists, climate scientists and academics are collaborating to protect what they view as fragile digital federal records and research.

They want the data saved before Donald Trump takes office.

The CBC report interviewed a Canadian scientist who described some of the scientific data that was lost during the Harper government.

Help and donations are requested.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @05:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @05:03PM (#442103)

    "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." [wikiquote.org], Sinclair Lewis

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  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday December 17 2016, @01:59AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Saturday December 17 2016, @01:59AM (#442327) Journal

    Perhaps it would be more accurate to speak of fascism coming back to America:

    In Germany, Ford's antisemitic articles from The Dearborn Independent were issued in four volumes, cumulatively titled The International Jew, the World's Foremost Problem published by Theodor Fritsch, founder of several antisemitic parties and a member of the Reichstag. In a letter written in 1924, Heinrich Himmler described Ford as "one of our most valuable, important, and witty fighters." Ford is the only American mentioned favorably in Mein Kampf, although he is only mentioned once: Adolf Hitler wrote, "only a single great man, Ford, [who], to [the Jews'] fury, still maintains full independence...[from] the controlling masters of the producers in a nation of one hundred and twenty millions." Speaking in 1931 to a Detroit News reporter, Hitler said he regarded Ford as his "inspiration," explaining his reason for keeping Ford's life-size portrait next to his desk. Steven Watts wrote that Hitler "revered" Ford, proclaiming that "I shall do my best to put his theories into practice in Germany," and modeling the Volkswagen, the people's car, on the Model T.

    -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#The_Dearborn_Independent_and_antisemitism [wikipedia.org]