Articles on Efforts to Capture Government Data
Last updated on 4/8/2025
News articles describing current efforts to preserve government information and data during the 2025 Presidential administration transition:
- Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could be Lost Forever
404 Media. Apr. 4, 2025.
- In Letter, IMLS Advisory Board Says Its Core Activities Cannot be Slashed by Executive Action
Words & Money. Mar. 24, 2025.
- Kennedy Instructs Anti-Vaccine Group to Remove Fake C.D.C. Page
The New York Times. Mar. 22, 2025.
- The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump's Purge
The New Yorker. Mar. 14, 2025.
- Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting it in Europe
404 Media. Mar. 5, 2025.
- Data hoarders race to preserve data from rapidly disappearing U.S. federal websites
tomshardware. Feb. 13, 2025.
- Public lost access to Census Bureau data for days after a Trump order
NPR. Feb. 12, 2025.
- Judge tells agencies to restore webpages, data removed after Trump's executive order
AP News. Feb.11, 2025. Direct link to temporary restraining order (TRO).
- Inside the race to archive the US government’s websites
MIT Technology Review. Feb. 7, 2025.
- As the US government removes health websites and data, here’s a list of non-government data alternatives and archives
The Journalist's Resource. Feb. 3, 2025.
- The scramble to back up CDC.gov
Garbage Day. Jan. 31, 2025. Mentions some coordinating efforts by Health Professionals and Journalists to gather the CDC data.
- Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov
404 Media. Jan. 30, 2025.
- Researchers rush to preserve federal health databases before they disappear from government websites
The Journalist's Resource. Jan. 28, 2025.
- Why EDGI is Archiving Public Environmental Data
Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI). Jan. 16, 2025.
- Lend a Helping Hand with the End of Term Crawl
Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) Project. Dec. 17, 2024.
Articles for Context
- Data Preservation in 2025
Information Today. Apr. 9, 2025.
- The Nation's Data at Risk, Year Two - Ongoing Monitoring
American Statistical Association (ASA)
- War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon’s DEI purge.
AP News. Mar. 7, 2025.
- CDC Site Restores Some Purged Files
New York Times. Feb 3, 2025.
- Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday
New York Times. Feb 2, 2025.
- A Look at Federal Health Data Taken Offline
KFF. An independent source for health policy research, polling, and news. Feb. 2, 2025.
- CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Inside Medicine. Feb. 1, 2025.
- Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis
The Guardian. Jan. 31, 2025.
- The government information crisis is bigger than you think
Free Government Information (FGI). Jan. 28, 2025.