Model Projects

Information about relevant digital preservation work of at-risk data (both inactive & active)

Environmental Data and Governance Initiative https://envirodatagov.org/ A research collaborative that played a significant role in the initial 2016-2017 Data Rescue movement. The organization now focuses on Digital Preservation policy, research, and public advocacy for at-risk data and records and the public's Environmental Right to Know (ERTK).

Silencing Science Tracker https://climate.law.columbia.edu/Silencing-Science-Tracker Is a joint initiative of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund. It tracks government attempts to restrict or prohibit scientific research, education or discussion, or the publication or use of scientific information, since the November 2016 election. Read more about the tracker and related resources.

End of Term Web Archive https://eotarchive.org/ Project that captures and saves U.S. Government websites at the end of presidential administrations. The EOT has thus far preserved websites from administration changes in 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020. You can submit URL nominations for the End of Term 2024 Web Archive.

DataLumos https://www.datalumos.org/datalumos/ Created by the UM-ISR Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) this is an open-access archive, DataLumos, where the public can archive valuable government data resources, ensuring their long-term availability.

Data Rescue Portal https://datarescue.climate.copernicus.eu/en/c3s-data-rescue-service A service that coordinates and facilitate public access to weather and climate data from around the world. The focus is on non-digital materials from various centuries.

Data Rescue: Archives & Weather (DRAW) https://draw.geog.mcgill.ca// Transcription project where volunteers review and add description to historical weather logs held by the McGill weather observatory.

DataRefuge https://www.datarefuge.org/ One of the original coordinating group behind the 2016-2017 Data Rescue movement. Originally focused on identifying and collecting data, the project now focuses on using collected Climate data for various uses.

Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) https://www.sucho.org/ Initiative focused on Ukrainian Digital Cultural Heritage. It was kind of modeled off of Data rescue v01 but a little more broad in terms of what to “save” and there were different threats, because the physical infrastructure was also in danger.