#  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](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](https://gis.backup.projects.iq.harvard.edu/ucsd.libguides.com/usgov/trumptrackers)

Data Rescue Efforts (no longer being updated but useful)

[Google doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/15ZRxHqbhGDHCXo7Hqi_Vcy4Q50ZItLblIFaY3s7LBLw/)

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/](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__climatehealthcafe.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=s3EODnLtOnycFiQNRHNR10fR0hBvPUQsy0uJsG2owzE&m=qcNKSca6WQP-bPAJtcXZ3Dt-1meamUZfj6P77qHffYCylg9wDDJMFtXWoZYAunQ0&s=0q3WgM0d59DFpxy8wjL4bZi5_3QMCtT4oLfADmaeoBU&e=)

U Michigan ICPSR

<https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/about/cms/6160>

 U Michigan ICPSR Data Refuge [https://archive.icpsr.umich.edu/datalumos/home](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__archive.icpsr.umich.edu_datalumos_home&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=s3EODnLtOnycFiQNRHNR10fR0hBvPUQsy0uJsG2owzE&m=qcNKSca6WQP-bPAJtcXZ3Dt-1meamUZfj6P77qHffYCylg9wDDJMFtXWoZYAunQ0&s=QAFWk4E1DEBOvbTXlRIqoz5Zgg2GbDnbDaJfDzf62ys&e=)

Silencing Science - Trackers

<https://climate.law.columbia.edu/Silencing-Science-Tracker>

Climate Mirror Project

<https://climate.daknob.net/>

End of Term Project

<https://eotarchive.org/>

EnviroFed WebTracker list of sites, pages

[Google sheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eqZA-LDMRyoRLSRh_S_4MQuX6YXhDeOLqKMEzMLP-2Y/edit?gid=1720528264#gid=1720528264)

Environmental Data and Governance Initiative

<https://envirodatagov.org/>

Dryad

<https://datadryad.org/about>

Waybackmachine

<https://web.archive.org/>

Internet Archives

<https://archive.org/>

IPUMS

<https://www.ipums.org/>

**Tools**

Webrecorder

<https://webrecorder.net/blog/2025-03-25-govarchive-us-and-mirroring-sites-with-web-archives/>

Permalinks

<https://perma.cc/>

Interplanetary File System

<https://ipfs.tech/>

Filecoin - decentralized data storage

<https://filecoin.io/>

Airweave - permanent information storage

<https://arweave.org/>

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.**

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