Join us online for day 1 of GovInfo Day Spring 2025 to discuss digital and persistent access to government information!

La nuova amministrazione vuole eliminare tutti i contenuti governativi online non allineati con le idee del presidente. Per questo, un gruppo di ricercatori sta provando a salvare le informazioni prim...

Following a loud public outcry, and relentless media campaign from outdoors enthusiasts, the Trump administration has reversed course on a plan to eliminate thousands of seasonal workers at the Nation...

Preservation of Electronic Government Information

We are excited to introduce the Data Rescue Tracker, a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you c...

Preserving public data

Over the past several weeks, we have seen a sharp increase in questions and suggestions across social media about how members of the public can support long term preservation and access for born-digit...

The End of Term Web Archive is a collaborative initiative that collects, preserves, and makes accessible United States Government websites at the end of presidential administrations.

Rapid political events have led to an upheaval in access to data and other information resources produced by the U.S. government, particularly content associated with Executive Orders (EOs) seeking to...

Continuing our exploration of research data management and its commonalities and overlaps with the wider government information sphere, we now turn to the potential application of the FAIR Principles ...

Preservation of Electronic Government Information

The PEGI Project recently released a post about the preservation of public federal data in support of the Data Rescue Project. PEGI stands for Preserving Electronic Government Information (PEGI) and w...

What is a government information librarian to do during these times when the very public information we base our daily work around is being redacted, cleansed, and deleted? First, make yourself aware ...

[This post is adapted from our forthcoming book, Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future.] Today we want to clarify something important about preserving government information. Th...

There are many individuals, organizations, and community-based efforts to capture and preserve data in early 2025. Below are the efforts we are aware of and their collecting scopes. This list was deve...

There are many individuals, organizations, and community-based resources that document and assist with rescuing efforts. Below is the list of tools, data sources, library guides, and articles we are a...

We are excited to introduce the Data Rescue Tracker, a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you c...

Rapid political events have led to an upheaval in access to data and other information resources produced by the U.S. government, particularly content associated with Executive Orders (EOs) seeking to...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Nancy Krieger, a social epidemiologist at Harvard University, about her efforts to preserve federal health data that recently disappeared from government websites.

Zoom presentation by James R. Jacobs about the End of Term project (https://eotarchive.org). This talk was organized by Patrice McDermott of Government...

The End of Term Web Archive is a collaborative initiative that collects, preserves, and makes accessible United States Government websites at the end of presidential administrations.