https://www.spacebar.news/data-hoarding-more-important-than-ever/ @thespacebar

"The hobby of data hoarding might be most closely associated with saving illegally-downloaded movies on mountains of hard drives, but archiving public media and information has always been a component as well. Both parts are now critical to the survival of our shared culture and information base."
"Patch the holes. Seed a torrent."

Specificly mentioning #SciOp
https://sciop.net
#SafeguardingResearch @SafeguardingResearch

h/t @chartgerink

Arbeitest du einem Max Planck Institut & hast Interesse / positive Gefühle re #SafeguardingResearch ?

Falls ja, bitte Direktnachricht :)

We are exited that this year’s Ignition Talk at #oscibar is given by @lavaeolus on the very timely topic "On the Value of Being Unorthodox: Resilience in a Time of Hostility against Arts and Sciences" #SafeguardingResearch
Register here: https://www.barcamp-open-science.eu/
Don't hesitate to already propose sessions

France24’s great piece on the race to archive threatened data.

It features DRP, PEDP, and our team, @SafeguardingResearch. And @lavaeolus got some quotes in there as well (he started our project). Notably:

“There is a historical precedent for autocratic regimes changing what they want people to know, or changing reality according to their point of view…the end goal is controlling the population.”

https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250429-first-100-days-race-to-save-digital-records-from-trump-administration-dei

“People have already tried to erase research [in the past]. We want to make sure that won’t happen again.”

Article on France24, featuring Data Rescue Project, PEDP, and @SafeguardingResearch.
I'm glad they let me point out the core ideas of our effort.

https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250429-first-100-days-race-to-save-digital-records-from-trump-administration-dei
#SafeguardingResearch

I joined the #safeguardingresearch #sciop torrent swarm to keep datasets from USA science institutions easily available.

Setup a qbittorrent Docker https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-qbittorrent/
Added dataset feeds by threat level (I went with extinct, takedown_issued and endangered) https://sciop.net/feeds
Done

I tried to do some research on what happens to US #museums, in order to understand what it means for museum data. But lots of uncertainties.

Who is looking at the data side of the attacks on museums and on the scope of web archiving necessary for #SafeguardingResearch ?

Let’s connect…

Here is the thread on the forum of @SafeguardingResearch https://forum.safeguar.de/t/thoughts-on-museum-data/710

Are there people here who rely directly on US-data that is being safeguarded either by @SafeguardingResearch or one of the other projects?

If yes, feel free to reply here (or via Signal, upon request) - we would love to hear your story/stories!

#SafeguardingResearch

PANGAEA & their data rescue in Nature:
"Pangaea’s decision to join the cause followed distress calls from members of the science community and from staff members inside NOAA — an agency that monitors Earth’s atmosphere and climate and provides weather-forecasting services."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01309-3
#SafeguardingResearch

A collaboration between @webrecorder and @SafeguardingResearch: a complete archive of covid.gov from April 11th 2025 (before the recent change)
https://app.browsertrix.com/explore/usgov-archive/collections/covid-gov

The whole data to download/seed: https://sciop.net/uploads/d216c004169fd0edba67ef248aff477778cba00ff68bd916525802dd6e99b087

Henrik Schönemann
(@)lavaeolus(@)fedihum.org

Currently crying some tears of joy and of released pressure/stress:
One of the large repositories in Germany started safeguarding datasets from #NOAA, officially.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gloeckner_pangaea-is-actively-working-to-rescue-data-activity-7318581859896975360-YYht
https://pangaea.de/
This is the culmination of weeks of work
#SafeguardingResearch

"PANGAEA is actively working to rescue data from the United States."

Kim Possible@kimlockhartga@beige.party

https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/114357808368023879

Currently crying some tears of joy and of released pressure/stress:
One of the large repositories in Germany started safeguarding datasets from #NOAA, officially.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gloeckner_pangaea-is-actively-working-to-rescue-data-activity-7318581859896975360-YYht
(fulltext in reply)

https://pangaea.de/

This is the culmination of weeks of work
#SafeguardingResearch

Es bewegt sich hier auch etwas; auch wenn "hunderte Terabytes" schon sehr naiv ist.
(Es geht um mehrere hundert Petabytes)

Umweltdaten in Gefahr - Deutsche Forscher retten US-Datenbestände

Wegen der Umstrukturierungen in US-Behörden, die zentrale Plattformen für Umwelt- und Klimadaten bereitstellen, sind Datenbestände gefährdet. Deutsche Einrichtungen engagieren sich für ihre Rettung
https://ard.social/@tagesschau/114352419181608789
#SafeguardingResearch

Meine Gedanken dazu:
https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/114352634039062153

While waiting for possible international initiatives, volunteers are acting to save what can be by archiving websites and not-too-large databases. [...]. [@SafeguardingResearch] boasts an active team of about a dozen people, aided by more than 200 members who download and make available a volume of more than 100 terabytes of data using the Torrent protocol, a peer-to-peer communication system."
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/science/article/2025/04/15/how-trump-s-anti-science-policies-are-impacting-french-research_6740263_10.html

https://sciop.net & https://safeguar.de
#SafeguardingResearch

This thread is going to be a bit of a whiny rant, so if you're not up for that kind of thing, best skip it.
A couple months ago a call went out on the interwebz from a researcher worried that the government data his research depended on, many terabytes, might be taken down. He asked people to help him download it as quickly as possible, after which he said he would set up a new centralized location for them to upload it to for permanent storage.
#SafeguardingResearch #archiving
1/5

Update: Archiving done.

- https://sciop.net/datasets/cve-program (CVE: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures)
- https://sciop.net/datasets/cwe-list (CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration)
- https://sciop.net/datasets/attack-mitre-org (MITRE ATT&CK Framework)
- https://sciop.net/datasets/d3fend-mitre-org (MITRE D3FEND Framework)
- https://scm.cms.hu-berlin.de/safeguarding (30 mirrored repos from #MITRE)

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#SafeguardingResearch cc @SafeguardingResearch
https://weird.autos/@rootwyrm/114343301792346250
#infosec #cve #cwe

Today marks 3 month of the existence of @SafeguardingResearch (in hindsight)
Quite fittingly, today we added a whole bunch of #trans related material:
https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/114341509404502292

For anyone interested in a (short) history:
https://fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch/113958145757864155
#SafeguardingResearch

It's actually very fitting, as today marks 3 months of @SafeguardingResearch
#SafeguardingResearch
https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/114341509404502292

For a (very) short history, see https://fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch/113958145757864155