Ashton Andrepont
Scott Williams 🐧We've been collecting and mirroring what we can find of public data scrapes of data that has recently gone missing from federal sites or is likely to in the near future. The repos here include public data from CDC, NIH, and NOAA. Be warned that some of these repos are quite large!
Stay tuned. There's more on the way!
Now including data from #DeptEd as well. Added more CDC data. More on the way!
https://git.lsit.ucsb.edu/publicdata/DeptEd
https://git.lsit.ucsb.edu/publicdata/DeptEd
Here's the additional #CDC data that wasn't included in the original dump, with some of these reports going back decades, as well as reports on LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS.
https://git.lsit.ucsb.edu/publicdata/CDC-Data-2025/src/branch/main/other_reports
And now, #Climate data archive from #ClimateGov
Added more DeptEd and CDC data today and added globalchange.gov data.
I do appreciate those who having pointed out some data that I've missed or otherwise haven't archived yet. Please do let me know if you see such things. Unfortunately, some data has use restrictions and I'm only hosting public data here. If it's not public domain or clearly marked creative commons, etc, then I can't host it here.
Dan Himes 
@vwbusguy
Are you on bluesky? This request came across my feed:
Data Rescue 2025 @datarescue2025.bsky.social
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If any of you are on mastodon, please help us connect with people who might be doing similar work. we don’t have the capacity to have both accounts at this time. We could use some data rescue ambassadors.
@d_himes Nope. I'm mainly on fediverse these days. But you're welcome to pass on the link!
@d_himes Do they have an IRC, Matrix, or Signal group?
@vwbusguy Not that I've seen. They have this document, which may be of interest:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15ZRxHqbhGDHCXo7Hqi_Vcy4Q50ZItLblIFaY3s7LBLw/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.dn2mw4skk3ho
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15ZRxHqbhGDHCXo7Hqi_Vcy4Q50ZItLblIFaY3s7LBLw/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.dn2mw4skk3ho
Data Rescue Efforts
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@d_himes As it so happens, I'm familiar with that particular document and you can see a link already there (which I added myself earlier this week), so if it's the group I think it is, I'm already in communication. 🙂
I'm glad to hear that.
aburka 🫣@vwbusguy is this affiliated with archive team at all?
@aburka I'm not sure what "archive team" means, but we're not the only higher ed folks doing this. We're all working to survive this!
University of Washington, for example:
@vwbusguy https://wiki.archiveteam.org/
I've been running one of their containers this week grinding on the US government project
@aburka That's awesome! It's been a mix of things here. Stuff that's already in a git repo somewhere is cake to mirror because we are already using @forgejo so no worries about Microsoft (GitHub) taking ours down. CDC dump from Internet Archive. Other stuff was fetched with various bespoke stuff I cobbled together yesterday and today (javascript console in Firefox, wget -r, etc.).
Out of Control 
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The Chaotic Good 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🖖@vwbusguy is anyone bittorrenting this?
Scott Williams 🐧 (@[email protected])
It would be cool for #forgejo to have a way to generate and seed a torrent for a repo release tag. #git #torrent #bittorrent
@Aminorjourney All that to say, if someone felt motivated to setup a torrent of this data, it would be a great way to help out. The more people that get this data, the more likely it is to survive.
@vwbusguy I do have lots of disks, but a very slow connection.
@vwbusguy Hey! I'm downloading the ERIC database right now; I didn't realize I was late to the party. How can I send it your way?
@ashtonandrepont Given that ERIC is not public domain, CC, etc., I probably can't host it here, unless you are only fetching the public domain articles.
@vwbusguy Ah, understandable. Is there a good place for me to put it?
@ashtonandrepont I am not a lawyer, but the Internet Archive might be a possibility.
@vwbusguy Me neither, but I was planning on uploading it there when I get them all downloaded.
@ashtonandrepont Ah! I see the public data. I'll grab it shortly. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!
@vwbusguy Happy to help! o7
@ashtonandrepont If you happen to know of a way to search ERIC by license so I can isolate the public domain stuff from the copyrighted stuff, then I can grab more material, but I didn't see that in the search options.
@vwbusguy I don't see it either :/
I do have a list of all the URL links to the files if that'd be helpful.
@ashtonandrepont Here's what I was able to grab on a first pass:
https://git.lsit.ucsb.edu/publicdata/DeptEd/src/branch/main/ERIC
@vwbusguy Holy crap, you did that fast! It's taking me a whole day at this rate to download what I'm trying to download.