Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov
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More than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from data.gov since Trump was inaugurated. But analyzing exactly what happened and where it went is going to take some time.
  • evenwicht@lemmy.sdf.orgOPM
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    2 days ago

    If anyone is writing or maintaining a playbook/handbook for how to run an authoritarian regime, removing open data would be a play to add.

  • evenwicht@lemmy.sdf.orgOPM
    6·
    2 days ago

    Knee-jerk fix: we make a FOIA request for the data that was removed.

    But the shame of it is that FOIA reqs are not gratis, which means we have to pay again for the data. Elon’s DOGE office would just see it as a success that they are getting extra compensation for the data.