We are excited to announce that the call for proposals for #CSVCONF csv,conf,v9 is now open!
This year theme is "Data for Communities"
Submit your ideas for talks by April 6 for a chance to join us in Bologna!
https://forms.gle/AEC5oXgQBhPrKiPJ7
#OpenData #OpenSource #DataJournalism #DataViz #DataGov

This is very welcome news in the face of Trumpist depredations of US public data.
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01/30/preserving-public-u-s-federal-data/

"In recent months the Harvard Law School [@harvard_law] Library Innovation Lab [@harvardlil] has created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government data that is most valuable to researchers, scholars, civil society and the public at large across every field. To begin, we have collected major portions of the datasets tracked by data.gov, federal #Github repositories, and #PubMed...."

https://www.404media.co/archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov
As people in the Data Hoarding and #archiving communities have pointed out, on January 21, there were 307,854 datasets on #datagov. As of Thursday, there are 305,564 datasets. Many of the #deletions happened immediately after Trump was inaugurated, according to snapshots of the #website saved on the #InternetArchive’s #WaybackMachine Harvard Univ researcher Jack Cushman has been taking snapshots of Data.gov’s datasets both before and after the inauguration #disparition

"Datasets aggregated on data.gov, the largest repository of U.S. government open data on the internet, are being deleted, according to the website’s own information. Since Donald Trump was inaugurated as president, more than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from the database."

~ Jason Koebler

#Trump #authoritarianism #FederalGovernment #BreakingThings
#DataGov
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https://www.404media.co/archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov/

"Disproportionately, the datasets that are no longer accessible through the portal come from the Department of Energy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of the Interior, NASA, and the Environmental Protection Agency. But determining what is actually gone and what has simply moved or is backed up elsewhere by the government is a manual task, and it's too early to say for sure what is gone and what may have been renamed or updated with a newer version.

This is because data.gov doesn’t always host the data that it is indexing. Sometimes the data is hosted directly on data.gov, but other times it links to an individual agency’s website, where the data is actually hosted. This means archiving and analyzing data.gov is not straightforward.

“Some of [the entries link to] actual data,” Cushman told 404 Media. “And some of them link to a landing page [where the data is hosted]. And the question is—when things are disappearing, is it the data it points to that is gone? Or is it just the index to it that’s gone?”"

https://www.404media.co/archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov/