The project is Safeguarding Research & Culture…The concept is simple: download public datasets that are at risk of being lost, and replicate them as widely as possible to make them hard to destroy, though obviously there’s a lot of complexity buried in that statement. When the Trump administration first took power, there were a lot of people around the world worried about this issue and wanting to help, so while there are a number of institutions & better resourced groups doing similar things, we aim to complement them by mobilising grassroots volunteers.
Editors’ Choice: Data rescue for World Digital Preservation Day 2025
