Please join me in a round of applause for @elduvelle who, after reading my toot, reached out to the Forbes journalist, pointing out the "Mastadon" typo.

The typo has been fixed and the article is even linking to joinmastodon.org now 🥳

Mastodon - Decentralized social media

Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.

^{joinmastodon.org}

It just occurred to me that the Forbes article uses a stock photo of a hand holding up a smartphone with a bunch of apps from mainstream, for-profit social media... even if the piece is about the #Fediverse.

So on my to do list for today: recreating a similar photo showing Fediverse software instead. Like, how my actual phone looks like.

As a photographer, I feel it's my duty to do this.

I will give the pic a CC BY-ND license. Thoughts?

And fellow photographers will you join in?

Related: Also see the End of Term Web Archive, which routinely scrapes and preserves US govt web pages before new presidents take office. Launched in 2008 and still going strong. To supplement its archive, it welcomes URL nominations of sites to save.
eotarchive.org/

#OpenData #Preservation #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Related: "As Data Goes Off-Line Under #Trump, Environmental Researchers Are Uploading Backups"
insidehighered.com/news/facult…

"In the first few days of Donald Trump’s second term as president, the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s #Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (#CEJST, for short) disappeared from government websites. It was an interactive map of U.S. Census tracts that are “marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution,” as the pre-Trump federal government put it—something researchers and the public could use to quickly locate and zoom in on specific communities and analyze the problems they face. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine stored a copy of the webpage, but even there, the map was gone. However, thanks to a team of researchers from multiple universities and other organizations, a new working version was posted online Friday."

#OpenData #Preservation #USPol #USPolitics

As data goes off-line under Trump, researchers upload backups

A team of scholars has worked since November to archive resources that are valuable to themselves and the public—just in case they were taken down.

^{Ryan Quinn (Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs)}

Related: "The #Trump administration is scrubbing the #CDC’s website of documents on #ReproductiveRights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. We’re saving them. 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘋𝘢𝘺 will publish and host these vital documents for as long as necessary. To share deleted documents with 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘋𝘢𝘺, email tips@abortioneveryday.com. "
jessica.substack.com/p/cdc-bir…

#Preservation #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin

The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.

^{Jessica Valenti (Abortion, Every Day)}

Related. Also see the Safeguarding Research project.
safeguarding-research.discours…

"You know of any publicly available material that needs safeguarding? Please post about it here!"

#Preservation #USPol #USPolitics

Safeguarding Research ✊

Organizing to safeguard as much publicly available research, GLAM-collections, etc. pp. as possible.

^{Safeguarding Research ✊}

Related. "Researchers rush to preserve federal health databases before they disappear from government websites"
journalistsresource.org/home/r…

"Tips for preserving websites:
* To find the missing websites, go to Wayback Machine and type in the website’s URL in the search bar.
* If you’re concerned that certain websites or web pages may be removed, you can suggest federal websites and content that end in .gov, .mil and .com to the End of Term Web Archive.
* You can suggest federal climate and environmental databases to Environmental Data and Governance Initiative.
* You can suggest databases to The Data Liberation Project, which is run by MuckRock and Big Local News.
* Tell science journalist Maggie Koerth what CDC data you've downloaded and whether you've made them publicly available...."

#Preservation #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Researchers rush to preserve government health data

Journalists have long relied on federal health data for their reporting. We include several tips that they can use to help researchers preserve the data.

^{Naseem S. Miller (The Journalist's Resource)}

Related. "Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos."
nature.com/articles/d41586-025…

#CDC #FDA #Medicine #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos

The mass-archiving effort is in response to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removing some of its web pages.

^{Mallapaty, Smriti}

Update. "Inside the race to archive the US government’s websites"
technologyreview.com/2025/02/0…

Surveying a range of initiatives with good clarity on the obstacles.

"There are questions about whether scraping the data will really be enough. Restoring websites and complex data sets is often not a simple process.…'The repairs and attempts to recover are sometimes insurmountable where we need continuous readings of data.' 'All of this data archiving work is a temporary Band-Aid,' says Gosnell. 'If data sets are removed and are no longer updated, our archived data will become increasingly stale and thus ineffective at informing decisions over time.' "

#Climate #Data #Medicine #OpenData #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Inside the race to archive the US government’s websites

Amid takedowns of various government sites and databases, several organizations are working to preserve vital climate, health, and scientific data before it’s gone for good.

^{Scott J Mulligan (MIT Technology Review)}

Update. "The Public Environmental Data Partners [#PEDP] are committed to preserving and providing public access to federal environmental data. We are a volunteer coalition of several environmental, justice, and policy organizations, researchers across several universities, archivists, and students who rely on federal datasets and tools to support critical research, advocacy, policy, and litigation work. To gather insights on what data to preserve, we reached out to our networks, which consist largely of environmental justice groups and networks, state and local government climate offices, and academic researchers. We compiled a large list of federal databases and tools, and prioritized them based on their relative impact, our confidence that we could archive them, and the relative effort it would take to obtain and archive them."
screening-tools.com/

Continuously updated.

#Climate #Data #Environment #OpenData #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Update. "This is Version 2 of the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, released by the Council on Environmental Quality [#CEQ] in December 2024. Although the tool remains unchanged, public access through the White House was discontinued on January 22, 2025. We re-created Version 2 and made it publicly accessible."
screening-tools.com/climate-ec…

#Climate #Environment #OpenSource #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Update. "Today we [Harvard Law School @harvard_law Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil] released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. It will be updated daily as new datasets are added to data.gov. This is the first release in our new data vault project to preserve and authenticate vital public datasets for academic research, policymaking, and public use."
lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/…

#DataGov #Libraries #OpenData #Preservation #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab

^{lil.law.harvard.edu}

Update. "Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it and learn how you can help. Join the Internet Archive [@internetarchive] and the Library Innovation Lab [@harvardlil] on Feb. 13, 3pm Eastern for a special event exploring the terabytes of data they have already saved and how to access it."
muckrock.com/news/archives/202…

#Censorship #OpenData #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it and learn how you can help.

Since the start of the new Trump administration, hundreds of federal data sets and government websites have gone offline without warning, sometimes returning with major changes and sometimes not returning at all. On February.

^{MuckRock Foundation}