We are lucky that some people are working to save this data but the fact that they even need to do this is so sad and wasteful...
#BBCNews: Inside the desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion
Executive order removing environmental justice tool creates challenges for homebuyers https://www.byteseu.com/845351/ #AirQuality #CommunitySafety #DataAccess #DataPreservation #EJScreen #environment #EnvironmentalAdvocacy #EnvironmentalData #EnvironmentalJustice #EnvironmentalPolicy #EnvironmentalStewardship #EPA #ExecutiveOrder #FederalPrograms #HazardousWaste #Houston #local #Pollution #PublicEnvironmentalDataPartners #PublicHealth #SuperfundSites #TrumpAdministration
NEW: Director of Wayback Machine, Mark Graham @mark dives into the End of Term @internetarchive campaign; reveals how researchers & journalists fight to preserve government data before it disappears. 
#DataPreservation #journalism
16TB collection of federal public datasets linked by data.gov, including over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, are now part of a new data vault project seeking to preserve vital research data.
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02/06/announcing-data-gov-archive/
For entirely ethical #datapreservation reasons, does anyone know a decent way to strip the #DRM from amazon ebooks?
My partner is trying to ditch Amazon completely but doesn't wanna lose her #ebooks. Ideally we will be converting them into epubs so they can be used on any generic e-reader.
@mia is up next on integrating enriched metadata into collections platform. "Have we looked after the data we asked people to contribute?"
Me: this sounds like a call for #DigitalPreservation #DigiPres #DataPreservation
#DatabasesDemystified Part 4: Sustainability and Preservation
In our final example, we see how many database records in #FAIRsharing have either #Sustainability or #DataPreservation plans: only 8%!Why is this surprising, and what can we learn from this? Find out more over on our blog post (with all examples) at https://blog.fairsharing.org/?p=868
Thank you to our @fairsharing team and our #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions for their curation and technical work to be able to create these examples
Archiving the data from the MFM hard disk of #triglavcomputer 
After posting this video, we discovered during data analysis that the FUJITSU M2243AS2 hard drive actually has 11 heads, not just 8 as detected by the MFM reader. Consequently, a re-read was necessary.
A Primer On Optical Storage Data Preservation - Picking a storage medium for data preservation can be a conflicting time. Sure, th... - https://hackaday.com/2024/05/01/a-primer-on-optical-storage-data-preservation/ #datapreservation #reviews #dvd #cd
@nytpu I think that's more businesses being filled with idiots that don't care about #archival and #DataPreservation.
"Worth" shouldn't really be a factor at all.
If I had my way, governments would invest a *lot* more in those multi-century lifespan archival optical discs to try & make that petabyte disc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_CD-ROM) a thing so that long-term archival in government-provided facilities similarly to various already existing national archives would become vastly more widespread.
Semi-related, also been thinking about #EndangeredData and datasets that may disappear if no one actively works to preserve them and what factors one might consider to identify such datasets.
Feels like something folks at the #InternetArchive might have thought about...
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