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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: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 17 2016, @01:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 17 2016, @01:19AM (#442306)

    All the anti-Trump scare articles are starting to get a tad old, not only here but in general in media. I understand people that write them don't like him and didn't vote for him but the scaremongering is starting to take on unreal proportions.

    Unreal proportions? Seriously? And, who the hell modded you up as "Insightful", of all things? Your personal sock puppet? Perhaps you missed this [foxnews.com] bit of recent news? When are you going to admit that some people have very legitimate concerns? When experts on climate change are being rounded up and disappeared in the middle of the night? When Muslims, Mexicans, and intellectuals are being shoved into the gas chambers? When? Just where is the tipping point for you?

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