Where can you put it? Try EOT!
We have had a lot of interest in our work over the weekend, probably because of the New Yorker article and the recent Executive Order targeting several key offices, especially for us librarians. We welcome everyone to our efforts and thank you so much for your support.
Today, we want to highlight one established initiative that we have supported all along: The End of Term Web Archive. In response to the EO, we saw some Bluesky posts this weekend calling on individuals to archive sites. While we applaud any effort to save, we encourage you to put all that incredible energy into the End of Term Web Archive, where we know that the sites will be preserved for the long term. One of the missions of the Data Rescue Project was to learn the lessons of the past and avoid putting data into places where they become undiscoverable. Your personal website or server, while a great place for storing digital artifacts for you, isn’t a great place for discoverability and long-term preservation. The End of Term Web Archive has ensured access to Presidential websites and more since 2008 and has strong inter-institutional support.
The nominations window will close at the end of March. So, get your nominations in now! You could even host a Data Rescue Event focused on the End of Term Web Archive. Get your friends together and nominate a website! It is an especially great option for websites or reports. Just be sure to check first in the EOT to see if it has been nominated already!
For datasets (see a short definition on this page), we use ICPSR’s DataLumos, a crowd-sourced repository for public government data. Again, search DataLumos or check our Tracker (full listing) to see if something has been rescued already.
We encourage you to consider the type of material before posting. Get in touch with us if you have questions about the best places for the digital artifacts you want to save.
