[Air-L] Fwd: [liberationtech] URGENT: U.S. Dept of the Interior: Records Destruction Request. Public Comment Period.

[lindsay blackwell]

looping in brandon locke at MSU (who spearheads endangered data week
<https://endangereddataweek.org/about/>) for insight into protecting this
data.

Lindsay Blackwell <http://www.lindsayblackwell.net> [she/her]
PhD Candidate, School of Information
University of Michigan


On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 3:54 AM Irani, Lilly <lirani at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> In addition to formal commentary and reaching out to congress, are there
> other measures that would be possible such as requesting the archives and
> creating copies? Michelle Murphy and Patrick Keilty at University of
> Toronto in partnership with librarians at universities organized an
> archiving hackathon to download EPA data in anticipation of attempts to
> destroy the records.
>
> This is not an area of expertise for me but of course this is urgent.
> ________________________________
> From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Charles M. Ess
> <c.m.ess at media.uio.no>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 10:54:38 PM
> To: air-l
> Subject: [Air-L] Fwd: [liberationtech] URGENT: U.S. Dept of the Interior:
> Records Destruction Request. Public Comment Period.
>
> Dear AoIRists,
> I'm not sure this intersects much with internet research - though
> someone might want to document the effort, if nothing else, under the
> internet and social activism.
> AoIRists who are U.S. citizens - is this as Orwellian and disturbing as
> it looks?
> If so, please act and forward as appropriate.
> glumly,
> - charles ess
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject:         [liberationtech] URGENT: U.S. Dept of the Interior:
> Records
> Destruction Request. Public Comment Period.
> Date:    Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:35:57 -0700
> From:    Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com>
> Reply-To:        liberationtech <liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu>
> To:      Liberation Technologies <liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu>
> CC:      Mr. James R. Jacobs <jrjacobs at stanford.edu>
>
>
>
> From: Mr. James R. Jacobs <jrjacobs at stanford.edu
> <mailto:jrjacobs at stanford.edu>>
>
>        I wanted to alert you to a very disturbing thing happening in the
> National Archives world that may severely impact research, especially
> historical and scientific research. The Dept of interior is asking for
> permission to destroy records about oil and gas leases, mining, dams,
> wells, timber sales, marine conservation, fishing, endangered species,
> non-endangered species, critical habitats, land acquisition, and lots
> more. Basically records from every agency within the Interior
> Department, including the Bureau of Land Management, National Park
> Service, US Fish & Wildlife Service, US Geological Survey, Bureau of
> Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and
> others. This is all content that would normally go to NARA for
> collection and preservation. This is disturbing because previous
> administrations would obfuscate records by classifying/reclassifying
> records. This admin is basically just destroying records so they’ll
> never be accessible.
>
>       There’s an October 29 deadline for comment to NARA:
> request.schedule at nara.gov <mailto:request.schedule at nara.gov> /// fax:
> 301-837-3698 /// NARA (ACRA), 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park MD
> 20740-6001. (Be sure to say that you’re referring to
> DAA-0048-2015-0003.) Please forward to your networks and researchers who
> may be effected.
>
>       More information: https://altgov2.org/doi-records-destruction/
>
>       NARA’s appraisal memo
>
> https://altgov2.org/wp-content/uploads/DAA-0048-2015-0003_Appraisal_Memo.pdf
>
>
>       this is tragic and terrible.
>
>       james
>
>
>
>       --
>       James R. Jacobs
>       US Government Information Librarian
>       123D Green Library
>       Stanford University
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>
>       "The art of research is the ability to look at the details, and
> see the passion."
>       -- Daryl Zero, "The Zero Effect" (1998)
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