Safeguarding Research/Culture

"As researchers, we often say 'we need the data'.
Today, the data needs us." — Kathy Reid (Kathy Reid (npub1sda…s240))

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Together, we can ensure that our cultural, intellectual and scientific heritage exists in multiple copies, in multiple places, and that no single entity or group of entities can make it all disappear.

Mission-Statement: https://safeguar.de/our-mission/
Website: https://safeguar.de
Forum: under construction
Catalog/Index (SciOp): https://sciop.net

Last Notes

2025-08-08 14:15:26 GMT

Some of you may have seen the news re National #Climate Assessment Reports
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/climate/wright-national-climate-assessments-updating
A friendly reminder:
They are all accessible here in this archive from November https://globalchange.govarchive.us/
As well as on #SciOp (from April)
https://sciop.net/datasets/globalchange-gov-webrip/pdf

2025-07-14 16:29:55 GMT

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yes, they are (at least what's feasible):
- https://sciop.net/tags/noaa
- https://sciop.net/tags/nasa
- https://screening-tools.com/archived-data
- https://portal.datarescueproject.org/categories/climate-environment/
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gloeckner_pangaea-is-actively-working-to-rescue-data-activity-7318581859896975360-YYht

2025-07-14 14:47:47 GMT

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cont.:
"The remote team places high value on working collaboratively with productivity and project management tools. If that sounds like you, please contact them at [email protected]"
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2025-07-14 14:47:35 GMT

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cont.:
"Working with collection partners and archives, this requires a working knowledge of #OpenRefine for data transformations and a basic knowledge of HTML, XML, and JSON to enrich existing metadata and fill in gaps where needed. Subject matter expertise in any particular field, as well as primary, secondary, or higher education would be enormously useful, and ideally also a working understanding of WCAG and digital accessibility best practices."
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2025-07-14 14:47:12 GMT

A group dealing with at-risk educational materials is looking for help:
"The Digital Public Goods Library is looking for librarian volunteers who have experience cataloging materials with education-related metadata in a digital library environment, to assist in identifying and making available public domain and openly licensed educational materials that are either at-risk or have lost their digital home."
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#SafeguardingResearch #DataRescue

2025-07-03 15:42:14 GMT

Data comes in many forms, but not every time there is a dataset ready to be saved:
We, together with @npub1n0l…7a4z and partners need YOUR help in preserving American history – but this time, we need you to put on your ranger hat and boots, and trek to your local national park to #SaveOurSigns
https://saveoursigns.org
#NationalPark #NPS #SafeguardingResearch
Please share widely! <3

2025-02-18 14:26:41 GMT

🎉 Our mission-statement 🎉
"[...]
@npub1ua3…6srt is creating an alternative infrastructure for archiving and disseminating of cultural heritage and scientific knowledge. We seek to preserve cultural memory in a way that traditional archives cannot. Together, we can ensure that our cultural, intellectual and scientific heritage exists in multiple copies, in multiple places, and that no single entity or group of entities can make it all disappear.
[...]"
https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/about