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Understanding Federal Data Loss and Future Directions

At just about every presentation, webinar, interview, and hackathon, not to mention in-passing conversations and speculative Bluesky posts, we’re asked: “But exactly how many datasets have been removed since January 2025?” As we have stated since the start, this is an impossible question to answer for a wide

New Report Documents Continued Staffing, Leadership Strains at Federal Statistical Agencies

Below is a guest post from Michelle Crosby and Steve Pierson of the American Statistical Association. The American Statistical Association (ASA) “FedStat Health” project team recently released its mid-year status report, 2026 Midyear Update: Resources and Leadership Supporting Federal Statistics. As someone who spends every day monitoring, analyzing, and

Urgent: Oppose NARA Facility Closures

We recently learned that some regional facilities of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) are being targeted for closures, including the ones in San Francisco/San Bruno, CA and Chicago. These facilities hold important records especially to people in those areas. Among the 100,000 cubic feet of documents

Open for Community Comment: Coalition for Resilient Research Data Infrastructure (CRRDI) Strategic Plan

The DRP Steering Committee is excited about the release of the draft Strategic Plan of the Coalition for Resilient Research Data Infrastructure (CRRDI). DRP Director Lynda Kellam has been working with a committee of experts organized by the Center for Open Science (COS) to develop a strategic plan that promotes

Announcing the DRP Metadata Analyst

Today’s post is an interview with our new Metadata Analyst! The DRP is grateful to be able to offer this position throught the generous support of the Portfolio to Protect Science, a fiscally sponsored initiative of Global Impact, as well as other anonymous individual donors. We are so excited

Celebrate Peer Review Week by reviewing together!

To celebrate 2026 Peer Review Week (September 14-18), PREreview is organizing a Review-a-thon: a global event where newly-formed and existing PREreview Clubs synchronously carry out collaborative reviews of preprints and datasets. Our goal is to showcase how human, community-driven peer review can help drive change

The Great Federal SOGI Data Rescue

During the Trump administration’s first year, sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) measures were widely removed from national surveys, programmatic data, and administrative systems. These changes often happened with little transparency, accountability, or evidence-based decision-making. While the removals have largely impacted data collection and dissemination beginning in

Thank you Maggie Levenstein, outgoing ICPSR Director

ICPSR has been an integral partner in the work to back up and advocate for public data. Without ICPSR’s DataLumos, the volunteers of the Data Rescue Project would not have had the infrastructure necessary to make our rescued data accessible. This has been key for the DRP, as our

DRP response to OMB Proposed Revisions

Recent proposed revisions to the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has drawn a significant amount of attention, and justified ire. This summary of key change highlights just how sweeping these proposed changes are, and how significantly they could shape scientific research in

A Year of Saving Our Signs

The following post is authored by Save Our Signs co-founders Kirsten Delegard, Jenny McBurney, and Amelia Palacios.   Save Our Signs launched one year ago on July 3, 2025, in response to the Executive Order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” and the related Secretarial Order of the same

DRP Receives "Documents to the People" Award

The DRP Steering Committee is delighted to announce (officially!) that the Data Rescue Project has been selected to receive the 2026 ProQuest/GODORT/ALA "Documents to the People" Award. We are honored to receive this award, and are so grateful to all of the nominators.  The Government Documents

Championing Public Data: Recap from IASSIST Keynote

In early June, DRP Director Dr. Lynda Kellam delivered a moving keynote presentation at the annual IASSIST conference. In her presentation, Lynda made the connection between data stewardship roles and civic life. Lynda has kindly made her slides, and a transcript of the presentation, publicly available. But for those who