The alteration and removal of data collected by the US Federal Government will have effects world wide. Researchers around the world rely on good, accurate, timely, and historical data provided, maintained, and preserved by the US government. A recent article describes this situation for Canada:
Vanishing data in the U.S. undermines good public policy, with global implications by Kristi Thompson (Research Data Management Librarian, Western University) and Albert Malkin (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Western University).
The Conversation (July 15, 2025).The Canadian data community is watching U.S. events closely, and this has led to the recent founding of the Canadian Data Rescue Project. The project has a dual focus: to support data rescue efforts in the U.S. and to set up preventative life support for Canadian government data.
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