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EPA quietly “decommissioning” its web archive
In another strike against access to public information and the historical record, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently announced that they will be “retiring” the EPA web archive on December 31, 2026. The Biden administration attempted to shut down the archive in 2022, citing “burdensome financial upkeep.” Thankfully, the Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI), […]
Good Forbes piece on the End of Term crawl
Check out this recent piece in Forbes about the End of Term project (eotarchive.org). And if you’re so moved to help out, you can nominate any federal government url through our handy nomination tool. There’s still time to help us save democracy’s information! Meet The Citizens Racing To Save Government Websites From Vanishing. Leslie Katz, […]
Volunteer to describe state gov info!
The Archive of the California Government Domain, CA.gov, is a collaborative project run by government information librarians at the University of California and Stanford University, coordinated by the California Digital Library (CDL) with support from the California State Library & California State Archives. The project is hosting a metadata sprint December 6-13 to improve description for […]
A Long-Term Goal For Creating A Digital Government-Information Library Infrastructure
(Editor’s note: this post was a guest editorial on Libraries Network, a nascent collaborative effort of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) spurred by the work of the DataRefuge project, End of Term crawl, and other volunteer efforts to preserve data and content from the .gov/.mil domain. This is the first of 2 posts for […]
A rare opportunity to make a long-term difference
February 28, 2017 / Leave a comment
(Editor’s note: this post is the second of two guest editorials on Libraries Network, a nascent collaborative effort of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) spurred by the work of the DataRefuge project, End of Term crawl, and other volunteer efforts to preserve data and content from the .gov/.mil domain. The first post was pointed […]
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