Interested in knowing when and where you can meet up with other #DataRescue volunteers and our Steering Committee? We have a calendar for all our public events and office hours: bit.ly/DRPcal And oh look! Office hours are this week on Wednesday. Register now!
A group dealing with at-risk educational materials is looking for help:
"The Digital Public Goods Library is looking for librarian volunteers who have experience cataloging materials with education-related metadata in a digital library environment, to assist in identifying and making available public domain and openly licensed educational materials that are either at-risk or have lost their digital home."
Hackathon: Data Under Threat / Data Rescueing (Aug 7) in #München
The LMU Open Science Center (@lmu_osc) runs a hackathon to support the #SciOp #SafeguardingResearch initiative: Rescuing research data that is deleted by the Trump administration.
Bonus: @lavaeolus will give an ignition talk!
Thursday, 2025-08-07, 16 – 19 (only in-person)
Details and signup: https://github.com/lmu-osc/safeguar.de-hackathon
Become a data rescuer by turning your own laptop into a Research Data Rescue Node, scraping at-risk data sets, and breathing new life into your old HDD as part of a global, decentralised network.
#LMUMünchen #OpenScience #OpenData #DataRescue
CC @SafeguardingResearch @bitsUndBaeumeAuxMuc
Initiatives like @SafeguardingResearch work hard to rescue #researchData that are (about to be) deleted by the Trump administration, by using a Bittorrent network where many small nodes contribute.
This is a very #solarpunk way of doing science: community-driven, decentralized & resilient #SolarpunkScience.
Some tinker projects:
1. Develop the most low-cost (in €, material resources, and CO2) p2p solution for data rescueing.
Maybe a #RaspberryPi + existing HDD? Reuse existing hardware. Compute costs in absolute and relative way (€ and CO2 per terabyte of data stored & shared). Is a bigger server plugged to a uni network more efficient in relative costs?
2. Run a hackathon, help others to install the bittorrent clients on whatever machine they have.
3 (Bonus): Build a purely solar powered, autonomous seeding node. E.g. the #LowTechMagazine went a long way in optimizing a web server that runs on solar + battery (achieving >95% uptime on a 50W solar setup)
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website/
Imagine little autonomous, solar powered seeding nodes standing in gardens, tirelessly sharing research data whenever the sun is shining. A project that regenerates our digital commons in a sustainable, community-led way 
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Please share your thoughts - is this a feasible and worthwhile project?
#SafeguardingResearch #DataRescue #OpenScience #OpenData #DIY
CC @moritz_negwer @alxd @thorsi @BlumeEvolution @marieverdeil @pluralistic @lmu_osc @Lambo
Data being seeded by my torrent server
Help preserve data being deleted by fascists: https://lydie.cc/data.html
The ArchiveTeam Warrior has been running intermittently on my laptop for ten days now.
It downloads stuff and puts it into the Internet Archive.
Everything's fine. It only runs while I use the laptop. I don't notice it. When the laptop goes into standby and wakes up again that doesn't seem to have any adverse effects.
I've downloaded and uploaded gigabytes so far. The top of the leader board for this project is half a petabyte.
Now I'm considering a installation where it could run around the clock. I don't want to increase our household's standby energy consumption too much, so I will see how that goes.
#archiving
#internetArchive
#DataRescue
#dataPreservation
#digtitalPreservation
#archiveTeamWarrior
#archiveTeam
Today, we added more PubMed and NCBI stuff from NIH:
In the process of downloading the National Archives' youtube channel - 2914 videos. You know the fascists will start deleting these. I will have a shiny new torrent! #datahoarder #datapreservation #preservation #uspol #usgovernment #data #DataRescue #torrent #antifa #resistance #resist
Installed and started the ArchiveTeam Warrior. Very smooth experience.
It downloads stuff and puts it into the Internet Archive.
I took the "ArchiveTeam’s Choice" project and it chose public telegram channels. It's not taking a lot of bandwidth or memory or space or computing, as far as I can tell. It might take too much of my time and focus if I continue staring at the dashboard to try and figure out what all that stuff is.
Ongoing PSA:
A thanks to everyone who's been linking to our publicdata rescue project! I keep seeing links to it show up in more and more places. The infrastructure it's running on is local (not public cloud) and not tied to any NSF funding. That said, I encourage you to clone these repositories if you have plenty of disk space and an unmetered connection. More coming soon!
Today, I've added a public data dump of the US Social Security Administration (SSA) website. This data dump includes things like #disability #research, policies, forms, and guidance for same sex couples, etc.
Join our #DigitalPreservation efforts!
Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe – therefore we torrent.
Find data to torrent at https://sciop.net/datasets/
Forum: https://forum.safeguar.de/
Hashtags: #SafeguardingResearch, #DataRescue
Fediverse: @SafeguardingResearch
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/datarescueproject.org
Let the downloading commence!
My US government data hoarding page is up and ready with links and torrents. The torrents are all being seeded by my junkbox torrent server. I will continue to add torrents as I download things.
Anyone know of any efforts to archive GOES satellite data outside the US, now that NOAA's funding is under threat?
In 2020 people worried that climate data would disappear.
One year after Trump took office:
"in many instances, federal agencies have tampered with information about climate change. Across agency websites, documents have disappeared, web pages have vanished and language has shifted in ways that appear to reflect the policies of the new administration."
This time they want to get rid of NOAA altogether. Probably the EPA as well.
We need a multi-agency #DataRescue .
@ed_hawkins May your wish be granted 
. We at #SMHI in #Sweden are putting together one, it is called #Dawsonia
https://dawsonia.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
The project is a work in progress and so is the documentation. The ambition is to make it generic enough so that it can help #DataRescue projects around the world. So in that spirit we are developing in an free and open-source model.
https://git.smhi.se/ai-for-obs/dawsonia
Let me know if you are interested!
@lavergnetho @scottstgeorge I am also interested in more details.
Background: In the archives of @DeutscherWetterdienst, we have historic German ship observations and we work on the digitization of these weather observations. (https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-12-57-2015)
