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Weekly News Digest
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February 25, 2025 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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EveryLibrary Spreads the Word About the Data Rescue Project
EveryLibrary shares the following:A small team of data librarians has been actively searching for data assumed at risk and sending the datasets and documentation to ICPSR’s DataLumos, a crowd-sourced repository for government data. … [T]hey have sent data from IMLS, the Department of Education, FEMA, HUD, SAMSHA, and more. In addition, they have been nominating sites for the End of Term Crawl. They aim to ensure that the data captured has the appropriate documentation and metadata to enable long-term discoverability and preservation. The Data Rescue Project (DRP) is a coalition of data librarian organizations, including IASSIST, RDAP, and members of the Data Curation Network. [T]hey aim to coordinate and communicate efforts to preserve access to public US government data that is currently at risk. They have also been active in data gathering, curation and cleaning, cataloging, and providing sustained access and distribution of data assets. … To help with coordination across data rescue efforts, they have created the Data Rescue Tracker. This tool can be used both to look up where data has been rescued and to nominate your efforts. For more information, read the news item.
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