[governance] FW: [IP] **** re Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump (Washington Post)

Wed Dec 14 11:44:14 EST 2016

From: Dave Farber [mailto:farber at gmail.com] 
Sent: December 14, 2016 10:53 AM
To: ip <ip at listbox.com>
Subject: [IP] **** re Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump (Washington Post)

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From: Tim Pozar <pozar at lns.com <mailto:pozar at lns.com> >
Date: December 14, 2016 at 10:44:28 AM EST
To: dave at farber.net <mailto:dave at farber.net> , ip <ip at listbox.com <mailto:ip at listbox.com> >
Subject: Re: [IP] Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump (Washington Post)

You can see IA's and University of Toronto's event for this Saturday
(12/17) at:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1828129627464671/

https://technoscienceunit.wordpress.com/2016/12/04/guerrilla-archiving-event-saving-environmental-data-from-trump/

[...]
Activities:
1. Identifying endangered programs and data
2. Seeding the End of Term webcrawler with priority URLs
3. Identifying and mapping the location of inaccessible environmental
databases
4. Hacking scripts to make accessible to the webcrawler hard to reach
databases
5. Building a toolkit so that other groups can hold similar events

Skills needed: We need all kinds of people -- and that means you!
1. People who can locate relevant webpages for the Internet Archive’s
webcrawler
2. People who can identify data targeted for deletion by the Trump
transition team and the organizations they work with
3. People with knowledge of government websites and information,
including the EPA
4. People with library and archive skills
5. People who are good at navigating databases
6. People interested in mapping where inaccessible data is located at
the EPA
7. Hackers to figure out how to extract data and URLs from databases (in
a way that Internet Archive can use)
8. People with good organization and communication skills
9. People interested in creating a toolkit for reproducing similar events

Contacts: michelle.murphy at utoronto.ca <mailto:michelle.murphy at utoronto.ca>  or p.keilty at utoronto.ca <mailto:p.keilty at utoronto.ca> 
[...]

On 12/14/16 4:41 AM, Dave Farber wrote:

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*From:* Rich Kulawiec <rsk at gsp.org <mailto:rsk at gsp.org>  <mailto:rsk at gsp.org>>

*Date:* December 14, 2016 at 7:21:48 AM EST

*To:* Dave Farber <dave at farber.net <mailto:dave at farber.net>  <mailto:dave at farber.net>>

*Subject:* *Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data,

fearing it might vanish under Trump (Washington Post)*

(for IP, if you wish)

There are people/organizations/companies on IP who could step up

and really help these efforts.  Today would be better than tomorrow.

  Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it

might vanish under Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/13/scientists-are-frantically-copying-u-s-climate-data-fearing-it-might-vanish-under-trump/

Excerpt:

  "Alarmed that decades of crucial climate measurements could

  vanish under a hostile Trump administration, scientists have

  begun a feverish attempt to copy reams of government data

  onto independent servers in hopes of safeguarding it from any

  political interference.

  The efforts include a 'guerrilla archiving' event in

  Toronto, where experts will copy irreplaceable public data,

  meetings at the University of Pennsylvania focused on how to

  download as much federal data as possible in the coming weeks,

  and a collaboration of scientists and database experts who are

  compiling an online site to harbor scientific information."

---rsk

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