I wanted to come back and thank this community for all of the support during the past few weeks. We were really busy for a while there but I have a some updates about the group.
- We have a website: https://www.datarescueproject.org/ and a newsletter function you can sign up for. We are only doing posts once or twice a week at most.
- The more active place is still the bluesky account: https://bsky.app/profile/datarescueproject.org
- A more interesting development is that we've created a Data Rescue Tracker: https://www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-tracker/ To help us coordinate and track the various efforts happening to rescue data. This has gained traction and we have several data sources coming soon into the tracker (hopefully). It won't be perfect (it is free and built by volunteers) but it will give us a starting point.
- You can submit datasets you know about especially if they in places that might be super findable.
- We are going to start gathering public data user impact stories. I've talked some with the media and they really want to know how people are being impacted by the loss. It would help us to make the case of importance if we have specific things we can point to. I am creating a form where people can submit these (anonymously if they want), but you can also reach out to us.
Let me know if you have any questions about this! Again, we have really appreciated the support and help.