Data Rescue Hackathon

[Carl Schroedl]

Hi Civic Hackers!

There's a data rescue hackathon tomorrow at Sector 67 at 1pm. 

Free coffee and pizza will be available.

You can learn more and RSVP on the event's Facebook page.

Description copied from the event:

Join us for the first #DataRescueMadison hackathon event, facilitated by#LeadingLocally. We can build a refuge for federal climate and environmental data vulnerable under an administration that denies the fact of ongoing climate change. We are committed to fact-based arguments, and#DataRefuge works to preserve the facts we all need.
We need people with the following skills: 
- Hackers, coders, and front-end web designers
- Anyone with experience writing site crawlers or other command line tools
- People with expert knowledge of Climate Agencies and Programs
- People from environmental research areas
- People with an understanding of scientific data and metadata
- Archivists and Librarians
- People with good organization and communication skills
- Social media gurus, science writers, and storytellers

Bring: laptops, snacks, and anything else you need to be productive. We're working on getting free coffee & food, donations welcome!

This event collaborates with #DataRefuge, EDGI, and the Internet Archive’s End of Term 2016 project to archive federal websites and data that are in danger of disappearing during the Trump administration. Our event is focused on preserving climate change data sets and related metadata at high risk of being removed from online public access or even deleted. This project is urgent because the current presidential administration has targeted environmental programs with possible devastating cuts and gag orders, and some data has already been taken offline.

The Internet Archive is a San Francisco-based nonprofit digital library which aims at preserving and making knowledge universally accessible. Its End of Term web archive captures and saves U.S. Government websites that are at risk of changing or disappearing altogether during government transitions. The Internet Archive has asked volunteers to help select and organize information that will be preserved. 

End of Term web archive: http://eotarchive.cdlib.org/2016.html

Activities:
Conducting Research to identifying endangered programs and data, Seeding the End of Term webcrawler with priority URLs, and Scraping and downloading Vulnerable datasets

For Coders: See the EDGI Github for tools and tasks: https://github.com/edgi-govdata-archiving/
- People with expert knowledge of Climate Agencies and Programs
- People from environmental research areas
- People with an understanding of scientific data and metadata
- Archivists and Librarians
- People with good organization and communication skills
- Social media gurus, science writers, and storytellers
Bring: laptops, snacks, and anything else you need to be productive. We're working on getting free coffee & food, donations welcome!
This event collaborates with #DataRefuge, EDGI, and the Internet Archive’s End of Term 2016 project to archive federal websites and data that are in danger of disappearing during the Trump administration. Our event is focused on preserving climate change data sets and related metadata at high risk of being removed from online public access or even deleted. This project is urgent because the current presidential administration has targeted environmental programs with possible devastating cuts and gag orders, and some data has already been taken offline.
The Internet Archive is a San Francisco-based nonprofit digital library which aims at preserving and making knowledge universally accessible. Its End of Term web archive captures and saves U.S. Government websites that are at risk of changing or disappearing altogether during government transitions. The Internet Archive has asked volunteers to help select and organize information that will be preserved. 
End of Term web archive: http://eotarchive.cdlib.org/2016.html
Activities:
Conducting Research to identifying endangered programs and data, Seeding the End of Term webcrawler with priority URLs, and Scraping and downloading Vulnerable datasets
For Coders: See the EDGI Github for tools and tasks: https://github.com/edgi-govdata-archiving/