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   Ed Summers (edsu@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 02:04:19 JST Ed Summers

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   Here's a random example. The USGS has a clearinghouse list of datasets:

   https://apps.nationalmap.gov/datasets/

   One of them is linked to here:

   https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/59fa9f59e4b0531197affb0f

   Both of these pages have been archived by the Internet Archive (actually by #archiveteam

   The dataset page has only been archived twice, and there is a new version of the dataset on the web that hasn't been archived yet.

   The dataset page links to a ZIP file of GIS data on S3 which has not been archived at all:

   https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/StagedProducts/GovtUnit/Shape/GOVTUNIT_Alabama_State_Shape.zip

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     Ed Summers (edsu@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 02:04:20 JST Ed Summers

     I'm watching the anxiety level around .gov web resources grow after the election (for good reason) and am reminded of the #DataRefuge and #EDGI web monitoring work that started in 2016.

     In theory the End-Of-Term #WebArchiving project pulls in lots of resources that could be at risk. https://eotarchive.org/ But it can be challenging to verify and get a sense of how good coverage is, e.g. for GIS data.

     It feels like it could potentially be made easier?

     alcinnz repeated this.