Data Archiving

Data Rescue Project
The Data Rescue Project is a coordinated effort among a group of data organizations, including IASSIST, RDAP, and members of the Data Curation Network. The goal is to serve as a clearinghouse for data rescue-related efforts and data access points for public US governmental data that are currently at risk.

DataLumos
DataLumos, run by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), is a crowd-sourced repository for valuable government data.

Finding Missing Government Websites
The University of Michigan Library has compiled a list of non-governmental resources that have some US government-produced data.

Harvard Dataverse
The Harvard Dataverse Repository is a free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data. Each individual Dataverse collection is a customizable collection of datasets (or a virtual repository) for organizing, managing, and showcasing datasets.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
ICPSR is an international consortium of more than 810 academic institutions and research organizations. ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community. ICPSR also oversees the DataLumos project.

IPUMS
IPUMS provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. IPUMS integration and documentation makes it easy to study change, conduct comparative research, merge information across data types, and analyze individuals within family and community contexts. Data and services are available free of charge.

Urban Institute’s Data Catalog
The Urban Institute Data Catalog is a place to discover and download open data provided by Urban Institute researchers and data scientists. You can search for specific datasets or view all of our public datasets. Please review the data license attached to each dataset before using.

The Urban Institute is currently hosting several federal public datasets under the ‘Preserved Datasets’ topic. These datasets are ones that remain unavailable on their respective federal websites.

Data Monitoring

America’s Data Index
America’s Data Index monitors federal data infrastructure from dataset availability and new releases to planned and unplanned changes to collections.

Federal Data Forum
The Federal Data Forum is a place to share messages, materials, and announcements related to the U.S. federal statistical system and federal data products.

Tracking Removed and Modified Government Information & Resources
This University of Minnesota project is an attempt to track removed and modified government information and resources, to help the public see the scope of what has been removed or modified, and to point to where preserved copies can be found, if possible.

U.S. Government Information
The UCSD Library provides a detailed guide to information resources by and about the federal government, including links to a variety of tracking and monitoring projects.

Data Strategy

Assessing the Health of the Principal Federal Statistical Agencies
This collaborative, ongoing project is designed to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the 13 principal federal statistical agencies and the chief statistician’s office. It includes an assessment of their capacity to serve the nation in the years ahead in response to the movement for evidence-building; the changes in our population, economy, and society; and the increased demand for more frequent, timely, and granular information.

Make Data Count
Make Data Count is an initiative that promotes the development of open data metrics to enable evaluation of data usage.

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