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RDAP Data Rescue Hackathon

https://www.datarescueproject.org/rdap-data-rescue-hackathon/

Published: May 14, 2025 12:45

Our partner group, RDAP, hosted a virtual Data Rescue Hackathon. Find out more about the work they completed and how to get involved!

Thank you, Carla

https://www.datarescueproject.org/thank-you-carla/

Published: May 9, 2025 16:44

Today, we've heard the sad news that Dr. Carla Hayden, our Librarian of Congress, has been fired. Dr. Hayden has inspired the many librarians involved with the Data Rescue Project. She was the first woman and first African American to serve as the…

A BRFSS Data User Story

https://www.datarescueproject.org/brfss/

Published: May 5, 2025 12:29

Today, we have a data user story on the BRFSS, or the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Started in the Reagan era, the BRFSS collects data on health indicators and health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, such as cancer and…

Thank you and come say hi!

https://www.datarescueproject.org/thank-you/

Published: April 28, 2025 13:39

On April 15, the Data Rescue Project joined Open Collective Europe with the goal of becoming a self-sustaining organization. We have been overjoyed with the generous support from so many of you! Today, we were able to pay for our communications tools, such…

ERICA to the Rescue!

https://www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the-rescue/

Published: April 25, 2025 17:02

ERIC, the research repository of the Department of Education, was defunded this week. The ERIC catalog lists over 2 million education-related publications. More than 500,000 of these publications are directly hosted by ERIC as full-text PDFs. If the ERIC…

Welcome back covid.gov

https://www.datarescueproject.org/welcome-back-covid-gov/

Published: April 23, 2025 12:26

The Data Rescue Project, as a clearinghouse of data access points, loves highlighting partners and initiatives! Today, we feature Webrecorder, a company that develops web archiving tools and open source solutions to preserve dynamic and interactive…

Help us keep our data afloat

https://www.datarescueproject.org/help-us-keep-our-data-afloat/

Published: April 15, 2025 15:22

During the first few months of our project we have enormously benefited from the technical and financial support of SUCHO, a data rescue initiative for Ukrainian digital cultural heritage, and EleutherAI, a non-profit, open-source research lab. Their…

Thanks to the library workers!

https://www.datarescueproject.org/national-library-week/

Published: April 11, 2025 14:54

This week (April 6-12) is National Library Week! Most of our active DRP members are librarians, so we wanted to bring attention to their hard work and dedication. Many have volunteered time outside of work to help rescue datasets, build the Data Rescue…

What you can do for restricted access data

https://www.datarescueproject.org/restricted-access-data/

Published: April 5, 2025 16:12

Since we started working on this effort, we have had a lot of questions about restricted access data. We posted the challenges we face on our FAQ page. Participants with the DRP were also featured in an article about restricted data on 404 Media yesterday.…

USAID’s Demographic Health Surveys

https://www.datarescueproject.org/usaids-demographic-health-surveys/

Published: March 31, 2025 10:45

For the past forty years, USAID's Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) have been an invaluable source of data that captured information about fertility, family planning, maternal and child health, gender, HIV/AIDS, literacy, malaria, nutrition, and sanitation…