Government Information & Data Rescue

• Internet Archive's Wayback Machine

Includes a feature that allows users to capture and save the current state of a website. Use the "Save Page Now" function to save current websites.

• The Data Rescue Tracker 

Established by the Data Rescue Project, this is a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts, allowing for better coordination across disciplines.

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)'s Suggest Data to Archive

Users can suggest social science datasets and reports to be added to ICPSR's archive.

• MIT Libraries' Data Management Checklist

This checklist provides steps you can take to ensure the government data you use in your research remains accessible to you and others. 

• GovDiff

Developed by Tufts and Brown students, allows users to see side-by-side comparisons of government websites before and after the 47th presidential inauguration.

• ArchiveBox

ArchiveBox is an open-source tool that lets organizations & individuals archive both public & private web content while retaining control over their data. It can be used to save copies of bookmarks, preserve evidence for legal cases, backup photos from Facebook, Instagram, or media from YouTube and SoundCloud. The tool also allows users to save research papers and GitHub files.

• Webrecorder

A quality, open-source web archiving tool established in 2014, Webrecorder allows users to record and archive webpages. Webrecorder also has a browser extension available for download.

• Perm.cc

Built by librarians, Perm.cc helps scholars, journals, courts, and individuals create permanent records of the web sources they cite.

• The Data Curation Network 

Membership organization of institutional and non-profit data repositories whose vision is to advance open research by making data more ethical, reusable, and understandable. Based out of the University of Minnesota, their mission is to empower researchers to publish high-quality data in an ethical and FAIR way, collaboratively advance the art and science of data curation by creating, adopting, and openly sharing best practices, and supporting thoughtful, innovative, and inclusive data curation training and professional development opportunities. 

• Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) Project

An initiative to address national concerns regarding the preservation of electronic government information by cultural memory organizations for long-term use by the public. With a mission to advocate on behalf of current and future users of public information, the project aims to develop a community of practice to preserve and provide access to electronic government information.

• Archiving the Black Web's WARC School (Web Archiving School)

WARC School is the Archiving the Black Web's training program that aims to create a new generation of web archiving practitioners dedicated to documenting the Black experience online. Their curriculum supports an inclusive web archiving practice that equally values the development of technical skills and the cultivation of web archiving practices informed by cultural practices and ways of knowing.