The Daily Northwestern

NU Libraries, Data Rescue Project host training to preserve disappearing federal data

To the average person, “data recovery” might sound like something best left to hackers in basements or thriller movies. But in an age when public information is quietly vanishing from government ...
seattlepi.com

Data that taxpayers have paid for and rely on is disappearing – here’s how it’s happening and what you can do about it

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) On Jan. 31, 2025, websites and datasets from across the federal government began to ...
Cult of Mac

Rescue your data from a dysfunctional hard drive [Deals]

Every hard drive is like a time bomb of inconvenience, just waiting to go off. If you’ve backed up your Mac’s drive onto an external drive, that’s good. But if you’ve been using computers long enough, ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Dozens worked WashU event to save federal data at risk of disappearing

Jennifer Moore, left, head of data services at Washington University, and retired research scientist Jyoti Parwatikar were among those gathered Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, at the Olin Library for the ...
The Conversation

Vanishing data in the U.S. undermines good public policy, with global implications

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
The Conversation

Data that taxpayers have paid for and rely on is disappearing – here’s how it’s happening and what you can do about it

Margaret Levenstein receives or has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Census Bureau. John Kubale receives funding from the National ...