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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Fwd: [SANET-MG] Data preservation and archiving
  • Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 10:51:43 -0500

A big heads-up for Permaculture professionals and everyone else.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gil Gillespie <gwg2@cornell.edu>
Date: Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:09 AM
Subject: [SANET-MG] Data preservation and archiving
To: Sustainable Agriculture Network Discussion Group <
sanet-mg@googlegroups.com>


While I surmise that the change of the U.S. administration may not impact
agriculture-related topics as much as environmental ones, I think that, as
the author of the forwarded e-mail message suggests, it would be prudent
for anyone using such data in their work to download it from any government
agencies before mid-January.

Gil
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: [ENVIROSOC] Data preservation and archiving
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:45:32 +0000
From: Hooks, Gregory <ghooks@MCMASTER.CA> <ghooks@MCMASTER.CA>
Reply-To: Hooks, Gregory <ghooks@MCMASTER.CA> <ghooks@MCMASTER.CA>
To: ENVIROSOC@LISTSERV.NEU.EDU

Hi,



It is likely that the Trump Administration will severely curtail data
availability – and will do so immediately. Here’s a link to a listing of
data currently available for download at the EPA:
https://edg.epa.gov/WAFer/EDG/; and here’s a link to the EPA’s download
site: https://edg.epa.gov/metadata/catalog/search/browse/browse.page.
Other members of the list-serve probably know of other data resources at
WPA and other federal agencies. With a stroke of a pen, Trump can likely
restrict access to these data. For the EPA, Trump’s climate-change denying
pick will certainly be hostile to sharing these data.



Preserving these data and access to them would be an act of resistance to
the new regime – one that bears directly on the viability of scientific
research. The issue is by no means restricted to the EPA and environmental
data. The implications span a wide range of federal agencies (NIH, Dept of
Energy, Dept of Education, Social Security, Dept of Defense, etc.). Does
anyone know if a widespread effort to preserve, archive and make available
federal data is underway? If not, I think we should do so.



Greg



Gregory Hooks

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Department of Sociology

624 Kenneth Taylor Hall

McMaster University

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