A Disappearing Data Chronology
A new publication from George Washington University's National Security Archive: A Disappearing Data Chronology By Rachel Santarsiero, National Security Archive, George Washington University (Mar 30, 2026) Today, the National Security Archive published a Disappearing Data Chronology that tracks fundamental changes to the federal information landscape under the Trump administration, including major data losses and restorations, […]
The Trump administration is disappearing climate change data
Our friend from the Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI), Gretchen Gehrke, just wrote an extremely important op-ed for The Hill. It is a succinct but powerful statement about what the Trump administration is doing to destroy the accessibility of federal data and the long-standing trust of the federal statistical ecosystem. I hope all of our […]
Sunsetting of the CIA World Factbook
The CIA and its predecessors have published some version of the World Factbook since 1943! However, according to a statement last week from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the historic and world-renowned publication World Factbook has been terminated and all previous versions have been removed from the CIA site. The CIA did not provide any […]
Data.gov beta front end released
A few days ago, data.gov announced the soft launch (unfortunately on LinkedIn, NOT on their own site, nor as an official press release 😐 ) of a new beta catalog frontend, and more significantly have a new in-house data aggregation process which exposes their harvesting process. The system provides visibility into how agency datasets are […]
FGI’s comment on GPO’s draft policy on preservation (SOD-PPS-4-2026)
March 29, 2026 / 3 Comments on FGI’s comment on GPO’s draft policy on preservation (SOD-PPS-4-2026)
GPO has asked for comments on its draft of a new version of its policy statement SOD-PPS-4-2026, “Permanent Public Access to U.S. Government Public Information through Preservation” which will supercede SOD-PPS-2016-4 (effective July 5, 2016). Unfortunately, the comment form had a 4000 character limit, so below is FGI’s complete comment. This policy implies that there […]
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