In recent months the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab has created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government data that is most valuable to researchers, scholars, civil society and the public at large across every field. To begin, we have collected major portions of the datasets tracked by data.gov, federal Github repositories, and PubMed.
As a first step, we have collected the metadata and primary contents for over 300,000 datasets available on data.gov.
In coming weeks we will share full data and metadata for our collection so far. We look forward to seeing how our archive will be used by scholarly researchers and the public.
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01/30/preserving-public-u-s-federal-data/