Preserving U.S. Government Data
Listed below are some organizations working to preserve access to data that may be important for physics research.
For more information about these efforts, explore the Data Rescue Project, a coordinated effort among a group of data organizations, including IASSIST, RDAP, and members of the Data Curation Network, with a goal to serve as a clearinghouse for efforts focused on preserving access to public data and data access points for public US governmental data that are currently at risk.
If you are looking for a specific dataset, check the Data Rescue Project Tracker.
- CDC Data on the Internet ArchiveAn archive of CDC datasets from before January 28th, 2025
- Climate Change and Health Research Coordinator Center (CAFE) Collection at Harvard DataverseIncludes datasets from multiple federal agencies at the intersection of climate and human health
- Data.gov archive by Harvard Library Innovation Lab TeamReleased on February 6, 2025 on Source Cooperative, it includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025. it will be updated daily as new datasets are added to data.gov.
- DataLumosCrowdsourced repository for government data, provided by ICPSR (Institute for Social Research) at University of Michigan
- Open Energy Data Initiativeprovides free access to data generated from efforts funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and support projects and partnerships
- PolicyMap This link opens in a new windowPolicyMap is a mapping tool for accessing data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs, and more. Supports research about communities across the U.S.
- Public Environmental Data ProjectPartnering with Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) to make working copies available of key tools, including Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST), CDC's Social Vulnerability Index and Environmental Justice Index, and Council on Environmental Quality EJScorecard.
- Social Explorer This link opens in a new windowGeographic resource that brings together a vast and growing amount of quantitative data with an intuitive visual interface to make demographic research, the analysis of social trends, and comparison of neighborhoods, communities, counties, and other areas accessible and interactive. Access is limited to 5 users at a time.
- The Climate Mirrorhas NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) data from 2017