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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 […]
Vicky Reich and David Rosenthal receive CNI Paul Evans Peters Award for LOCKSS
Congratulations to Vicky and David, founders of LOCKSS for receiving the Paul Evans Peters Award! this is a HUGE and justified honor for their lifetimes’ impactful work in libraries and digital preservation. They join other luminaries who have received the Peters Award, among them Tim Berners Lee, Vint Serf, Brewster Kahle, Paul Ginsparg, Daniel Atkins, […]
Pentagon Culls Social Science Research, deletes 91 funded projects
Today the Pentagon announced that “The Office of the Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) is scrapping its social science research portfolio as part of a broader effort to ensure fiscal responsibility and prioritize mission-critical activities.” Pentagon Culls Social Science Research, Prioritizes Fiscal Responsibility and Technologies for Future Battlefield Examples of cancelled research […]
PEGI Project Urges Preservation of Public Federal Data
[Editor’s note: This was originally posted on the PEGI Project blog, of which jrj is a member. In the interest of increasing the reach of PEGI’s important message, we re-post here w permission from PEGI.] Rapid political events have led to an upheaval in access to data and other information resources produced by the U.S. […]
Federal information scrubbing has begun. Please support the End of Term Archive and Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI)
It seems that the scrubbing of public information and communication from Federal government websites has begun. But along with erasing information that the new administration does not like (mostly centered on climate change and the environment, science, health, DEI, civil rights, immigration, and the like), they have also signed a raft of executive orders overturning […]
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