Web Archiving Roundup: February 2017

A few quick links on web archiving topics

• SAA joins 60 other organizations and signs letter to the Office of Management and Budget about removing online government information.
• Kalev Letaru, from the GDelt project, writes in Forbes about “Why aren’t we doing more with our web archives?“
• The recent presidential transition has led to multiple news stories about web pages and data being removed from government websites.
  • At Wired “Gun violence researchers race to protect data from Trump“
  • At TechCrunch “White House LGBT’s rights page has disappeared“
  • At Wired “Diehard coders just rescued NASA’s earth science data“
  • At Quartz “Guerrilla archivists developed an app to save science data from the Trump administration“
• Web archiving activity around government websites
  • End-of-term archiving project at CDL
  • Nominate pages for the end-of-term archive
  • Data Refuge project
  • California Digital Library tracks government data at risk