Finding and Protecting Spatial Data
Here is a list of some of the efforts underway to protect data. If you know of other projects that should be included, please let us know.
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Wikipedia Online Resource Removals Page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_government_online_resource_removals
Data Rescue Project
https://www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-tracker/
USCB Trackers of Removals
https://ucsd.libguides.com/usgov/trumptrackers
Data Rescue Efforts (no longer being updated but useful)
NOAA Notice of Changes
https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/documents-reports/notice-of-changes
Restored CDC Project
https://restoredcdc.org/www.cdc.gov/
Harvard Law School Project to Preserve Public U.S. Federal Data
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01/30/preserving-public-u-s-federal-data/
Harvard Archive of Data.Gov on Source Cooperative
https://source.coop/repositories/harvard-lil/gov-data/description
Harvard Dataverse
https://support.dataverse.harvard.edu/
Harvard Dataverse CAFE collection https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/CAFE https://climatehealthcafe.org/
U Michigan ICPSR
https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/about/cms/6160
U Michigan ICPSR Data Refuge https://archive.icpsr.umich.edu/datalumos/home
Silencing Science - Trackers
https://climate.law.columbia.edu/Silencing-Science-Tracker
Climate Mirror Project
End of Term Project
EnviroFed WebTracker list of sites, pages
Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
Dryad
Waybackmachine
Internet Archives
IPUMS
Tools
Webrecorder
https://webrecorder.net/blog/2025-03-25-govarchive-us-and-mirroring-sites-with-web-archives/
Permalinks
Interplanetary File System
Filecoin - decentralized data storage
Airweave - permanent information storage
Reddit r/DataHoarder
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/
Data Curation Network
https://datacurationnetwork.org/
If you know of other projects that should be listed, please suggest them.