[Air-L] Reminder about US government research data availability

[Libby Hemphill]

You can share and preserve government data you rescue through Data Lumos:
https://www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

DataLumos is an ICPSR archive for valuable government data resources. ICPSR
has a long commitment to safekeeping and disseminating US government and
other social science data. DataLumos accepts deposits of public data
resources from the community and recommendations of public data resources
that ICPSR itself might add to DataLumos.

If you have questions or need help with a deposit, you can reach the Data
Lumos team here:
https://www.datalumos.org/datalumos/contact

Libby

Libby Hemphill
pronouns: she/her/hers
Director, Resource Center for Minority Data
<http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/RCMD>, ICPSR
<http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/>
Director, Social Media Archive <http://socialmediaarchive.org/>, ICPSR
<http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/>
Associate Director, Center for Social Media Responsibility
<http://csmr.umich.edu/>
Research Associate Professor, Institute for Social Research
<http://home.isr.umich.edu/>
Associate Professor, School of Information <https://www.si.umich.edu/>
Associate Professor, Digital Studies Institute
<https://www.digitalstudies.umich.edu/>
University of Michigan


On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 9:12 AM Richard Forno via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

>
> Hi folks -
>
> This is just a friendly reminder that if you're doing any research
> involving or depending on US government records, reports, or datasets from
> federal agencies, you might want to consider archiving and/or mirroring
> them on your end between now and 2025-01-20.  This is especially important
> if the materials you need are related to 'controversial' or 'fake' areas
> like medicine, climate change, socioeconomic issues, etc, etc. since they
> probably won't be available anymore once the next regime takes over.  Ergo,
> I'm sending up a warning flare, just in case.
>
> Good luck to all....
>
> --rick
>
> --
> Dr. Richard Forno
> Principal Lecturer, CSEE
> Director, Graduate Cybersecurity Programs
> Assistant Director, UMBC Cybersecurity Institute
> Affiliate Scholar, Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society
>
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