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Eira Tansey (teammidwest@glammr.us)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 17:27:26 JST Eira Tansey
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Like, speaking as someone who has worked as an actual digital archivist, the most vital thing you can do is agitate for robust enforcement of **existing** recordkeeping laws, trying to replicate the entire apparatus of existing federal records and data is.... a lot harder than folks realize. It's like thinking you can replace the closure of a public library with a Little Free Library. That's not how it works.

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  Eira Tansey (teammidwest@glammr.us)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 17:27:27 JST Eira Tansey
  
  guys I'm not trying to harsh anyone's vibes but a lot of people tried the whole "downloading every bit of climate data we could find from a .gov website" this time 8 years ago and most of those projects didn't actually work out very well. For example, the original DataRescue project basically petered out https://www.datarefuge.org/ and EDGI had to narrow its scope https://envirodatagov.org/edgis-data-program-examines-the-role-of-environmental-data-governance-through-the-lenses-of-power-justice-and-equity/
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    Data Refuge is a community-driven, collaborative project to preserve public climate and environmental data
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    EDGI’s data program examines the role of environmental data and its governance through the lenses of power, justice, and equity: Which communities are invited to participate in environmental data’s production and management, in what ways, and which are not.
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  Eira Tansey (teammidwest@glammr.us)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 17:27:52 JST Eira Tansey
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  Also reminder that the End of Term web archive exists if you really want to get involved with existing web archiving work around federal government agency transitions https://eotarchive.org/
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    The End of Term Web Archive is a collaborative initiative that collects, preserves, and makes accessible United States Government websites at the end of presidential administrations.
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  Jess F (j_feral@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 17:27:54 JST Jess F
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  @TeamMidwest it's pretty interesting how archiving is an act of anxiety for some people. if you are archiving out of sudden anxiety, take a breath and consider if you really need to spin those wheels. on the other hand, someone's random copy sometimes miraculously survives so if you're really enjoying the process, you do you !
  
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