From 1/20-1/23 Tufts University and the Open Geoportal Community conducted a sizeable U.S. federal data harvest. We surveyed Tufts faculty to identify those geospatial data most critical their teaching and research. We then conducted a curated harvest to back up potentially at-risk federal, environmental and social justice geospatial data and associated tabular data. Currently we are at around 20 TB of data backed up on Tufts Research Data Storage Network. This is an ongoing effort as we are continuing to harvest data daily. Please contact Patrick.florance@tufts.edu if you would like to participate or learn more.
Here is a summary of the Tufts OGP Data Rescue as of 3/1/2017
Other Data Rescue Efforts Around the Nation
Nationwide Data Rescue at Penn with Calendar of Events
Datarefuge.org – Penn CKAN repository
End of Term project
Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI)
Azimuth climate data backup project:
Run by John Baez baez@math.ucr.edu