November 10, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
March 18, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Here it is, the longest piece of nonfiction I’ve ever written, CENTURY-SCALE STORAGE. The kind folks at @harvardlil.bsky.social let me investigate the present and future of digital storage, and how we steward and preserve our most treasured cultural objects lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scal...
Century-Scale Storage
If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?
lil.law.harvard.edu
February 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Big Shout Out to Andrew Heiss at Georgia State:
an API for grabbing the USAID data: foreignassistance-data.andrewheiss.com
USAID greenbook: foreignassistance.andrewheiss.com/greenbook.html
an API for grabbing the USAID data: foreignassistance-data.andrewheiss.com
USAID greenbook: foreignassistance.andrewheiss.com/greenbook.html
Datasette: 2025-02-03_foreign-assistance
foreignassistance-data.andrewheiss.com
February 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Our recent post on Preserving Our Public Data Heritage is up. If you'd like to stay in touch, please subscribe to our newsletter. www.datarescueproject.org/preserving-o...
Preserving Our Public Data Heritage
The PEGI Project recently released a post about the preservation of public federal data in support of the Data Rescue Project. PEGI stands for Preservation of Electronic Government Information and was...
www.datarescueproject.org
February 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Big shout out to the librarians who are creating guides to alternate locations for data and data rescue efforts on their library websites! I just noticed these were added to our doc! @americanuniversity.bsky.social
American Univ: subjectguides.library.american.edu/data_rescue
American Univ: subjectguides.library.american.edu/data_rescue
Subject Guides: Government Information Data Rescue: Home
Links to trusted repositories that have rescued U.S. government data
subjectguides.library.american.edu
February 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...
The Data Rescue Tracker
We are excited to introduce the Data Rescue Tracker, a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you c...
www.datarescueproject.org
February 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Hey you.
The one working with data right now.
This is your periodic reminder to check to make sure you don't have duplicates in your data.
Did someone submit 2 surveys when they should have only submitted one? Did someone's data get duplicated during a merge? Shit happens.
Check your data.
The one working with data right now.
This is your periodic reminder to check to make sure you don't have duplicates in your data.
Did someone submit 2 surveys when they should have only submitted one? Did someone's data get duplicated during a merge? Shit happens.
Check your data.
September 18, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Hey BlueSky did you know if you work on 19thC materials & have a dataset we would be happy to review & maybe publish it so other scholars can see your data & maybe work with it, too? c19datacollective.com please share!
October 21, 2023 at 1:09 AM
Hey folks, have you seen I'm hiring?
Library/research support folks are particularly encouraged to apply - anyone with knowledge of open research, FAIR data, repositories, even if that knowledge is theoretical & you've not had a chance to put it into practice yet!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKY715/r...
Library/research support folks are particularly encouraged to apply - anyone with knowledge of open research, FAIR data, repositories, even if that knowledge is theoretical & you've not had a chance to put it into practice yet!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKY715/r...
Research Integrity & Data Manager at The Francis Crick Institute
Looking for a professional services job in higher education? Apply now for the Research Integrity & Data Manager position on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board.
www.jobs.ac.uk
December 9, 2024 at 1:53 PM
The information you include in a data dictionary (a collection of names, definitions, and attributes about variables in a dataset), depends on your data and how you plan to use the document.
Some ideas of fields to consider including. 👇
Data dictionary template and example are here: osf.io/ynqcu
Some ideas of fields to consider including. 👇
Data dictionary template and example are here: osf.io/ynqcu
February 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
MIT has created an excellent checklist for those making data backups on their own: libraries.mit.edu/data-managem... Data is special. Treat it with care!
Checklist for USA federal data backups | Data management
Introduction The United States (US) federal government collects, aggregates, and disseminates a large volume of information and data. This content is used by researchers, policymakers, and many others...
libraries.mit.edu
February 6, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Asking #medlibs, #datalibs, #skybrarians, and #medsky if you know of places capturing data/sites that have been take down-please share
February 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Asking #medlibs, #datalibs, #skybrarians, and #medsky if you know of places capturing data/sites that have been take down-please share
We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
lil.law.harvard.edu
February 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
An open letter highlighting the co-optation of open science language in the latest Executive Order to justify policies that are, in fact, antithetical to open science principles.
Read and consider signing with your support.
www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...
Read and consider signing with your support.
www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...
Open Letter in Support of Science — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
www.standupforscience.net
May 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A surfeit of sources: An annotated bibliography of data management books for librarians
iassistquarterly.com/index.php/ia...
Newest from @kbriney.bsky.social and I ! We examined over 30 books that cover data management for a librarian audience. Find your favorites!
iassistquarterly.com/index.php/ia...
Newest from @kbriney.bsky.social and I ! We examined over 30 books that cover data management for a librarian audience. Find your favorites!
A surfeit of sources: An annotated bibliography of data management books for librarians
| IASSIST Quarterly
iassistquarterly.com
July 1, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Markus Englund built a tool for identifying repetitive sequences in scientific datasets! Read up here: www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-d...
Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors
Initial results from scanning through Excel files belonging to 600 published scientific papers.
www.sciencedetective.org
March 7, 2026 at 3:11 AM
This community is stepping up for me and others in incredible ways. I love to see it. Thank you from the bottom of my little heart.
#medlibs #fedlibs #firedfeds #evidencesynthesis #academiclibraries #hosptiallibs #datalibs #scholcomm
#medlibs #fedlibs #firedfeds #evidencesynthesis #academiclibraries #hosptiallibs #datalibs #scholcomm
February 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This community is stepping up for me and others in incredible ways. I love to see it. Thank you from the bottom of my little heart.
#medlibs #fedlibs #firedfeds #evidencesynthesis #academiclibraries #hosptiallibs #datalibs #scholcomm
#medlibs #fedlibs #firedfeds #evidencesynthesis #academiclibraries #hosptiallibs #datalibs #scholcomm
Happy Love Data Week!
#LoveData25 is officially underway!
With so many events and activities listed, there’s something for everyone this week. Topics include data visualization, healthcare, DEI in data, GIS, and more:
#LoveData25 is officially underway!
With so many events and activities listed, there’s something for everyone this week. Topics include data visualization, healthcare, DEI in data, GIS, and more:
International Love Data Week
Welcome to the official home page of Love Data Week!
buff.ly
February 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The Smithsonian holds nearly 31,000 human remains in storage but has never publicly released a full inventory. We spent months obtaining the documents and turning handwritten and typed memos into a searchable database: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...
December 16, 2023 at 12:02 AM
Are you coming to Philadelphia this summer for ALA Annual? Do you want to meet fellow library workers? Learn how to build solidarity? Learn how to fight for (& win) better working conditions? And why organizing & collective bargaining are the tools we need now? Join us: forms.gle/yaWvzcFa9NiC...
Organize Your Library!
Coming to Philadelphia for ALA Annual? Join us before the conference on Thursday, June 26, 2025 and learn to Organize Your Library!
This event will bring library workers from across the U.S. together...
forms.gle
May 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
One of my favorite things that I did in the old place was curate a list of Data Librarians.
#datalibs are one of my favorite communities, and I hope this starter pack can help us find each other again in this new place.
Please reply or DM me with more folks to add to the pack!
go.bsky.app/DPpUuPm
#datalibs are one of my favorite communities, and I hope this starter pack can help us find each other again in this new place.
Please reply or DM me with more folks to add to the pack!
go.bsky.app/DPpUuPm
November 9, 2024 at 9:04 PM
One of my favorite things that I did in the old place was curate a list of Data Librarians.
#datalibs are one of my favorite communities, and I hope this starter pack can help us find each other again in this new place.
Please reply or DM me with more folks to add to the pack!
go.bsky.app/DPpUuPm
#datalibs are one of my favorite communities, and I hope this starter pack can help us find each other again in this new place.
Please reply or DM me with more folks to add to the pack!
go.bsky.app/DPpUuPm
Reposting for my #datalibs folks!
Have any #DataRescue burning questions?? We have just the thing...
We're hosting an #AMA. Join us on January 30, 6-8pm Eastern through bluesky! Please submit your questions through our form.
If you can't make it, there is an option to receive a response via email!
We're hosting an #AMA. Join us on January 30, 6-8pm Eastern through bluesky! Please submit your questions through our form.
If you can't make it, there is an option to receive a response via email!
DRP AMA 2026 Questions
This form is to collect questions for the Data Rescue Project's first "Ask Me Anything!" to be held on Bluesky January 30, 6-8pm Eastern. If you can't attend or on Bluesky, don't worry-- you can…
forms.gle
January 22, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Reposting for my #datalibs folks!