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Lancet investigation shows data manipulation in major U.S. health datasets
Well, this is disturbing and could have ripple effects through public health research that is sure to erode confidence in federal data. A new study in the medical journal The Lancet entitled “Data manipulation within the US Federal Government” reports that more than 100 United States government health datasets have been altered this spring without […]
Newest data tracking effort: dataindex.us
For those looking to keep abreast on all of the changes and deletions to federal government information and data, now there’s dataindex.us. DataIndex is a new collaborative project dedicated to monitoring the federal data infrastructure including dataset availability, new releases, and both planned and unplanned changes to data collections. The platform is developing tools to […]
New: The Federal Data Forum
The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) has launched the Federal Data Forum — an online community of hundreds of public data stakeholders (groups and individuals) interested in protecting the federal data infrastructure. PRB is a nonpartisan organization that advocates for the democratization of data. Members of the forum can share news, resources, and data advocacy strategies […]
Trump administration shut down more than 100 climate studies
Librarians and archivists are doing all that they can to collect and curate already-published web-based government information and data before it is taken offline. However, this administration’s anti-science policies and executive orders will have long-lasting negative impacts in the United States and around the world going forward and for many years to come as scientific […]
Tracking govinfo project logging removed or modified federal publications and websites
There is a long tradition in the govinfo librarian world of assuring access and longevity of published government information. From 1981 until 1998, Anne Heanue and the fine folks at the Washington Office of the American Library Association (ALA) published an amazing series called Less Access to Less Information by and about the U.S. Government, […]
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