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Scientists collaborate in effort to preserve and distribute research and government data

Follow up to previous posting – Will Government Science from agencies be deleted from public sites? – via The Intercept: “American scientists are under siege in the Trump administration because their work threatens to undermine Trump’s anti-science policies. As a result, some scientists have already begun trying to preserve government data they worry will be deleted, altered, or removed, and many are preparing to march on Washington to protest Trump’s dangerous science denialism. “Many scientists are concerned that we face an imminent digital dark age in which decades of taxpayer-funded observations and scientific research are deleted or buried,” Matthew Huber, a professor and climate scientist at Purdue University, told me in an encrypted email. “The main mechanisms currently used for dissemination of climate data (such as NASA, EPA or NOAA websites) tend to have single points of failure.” If you’re an American scientist who’s worried that your data might get censored or destroyed by Trump’s radically anti-science appointees, here are some technologies that could help you preserve it, and preserve access to it…”

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