**** re Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump (Washington Post)

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Tim Pozar <pozar () lns com>
> Date: December 14, 2016 at 10:44:28 AM EST
> To: dave () farber net, ip <ip () 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 () utoronto ca or p.keilty () utoronto ca
> [...]
>
>
> > On 12/14/16 4:41 AM, Dave Farber wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > *From:* Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org <mailto:rsk () gsp org>>
> > > *Date:* December 14, 2016 at 7:21:48 AM EST
> > > *To:* Dave Farber <dave () farber net <mailto:dave () 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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