UW-CALMA-datarescue/resources-and-tools.md

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# 🛠️ Resources & Tools

### Tools

Here you will find tools to assist with basic to advanced digital preservation tasks.

### References

ClimateWire, S. W. (n.d.). Climate Web Pages Erased and Obscured under Trump. Scientific American. Retrieved January 3, 2025, from[ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-web-pages-erased-and-obscured-under-trump/](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-web-pages-erased-and-obscured-under-trump/)

Dillon, L., Walker, D., Shapiro, N., Underhill, V., Martenyi, M., Wylie, S., Lave, R., Murphy, M., Brown, P., & Environmental Data and Governance Initiative. (2017). Environmental Data Justice and the Trump Administration: Reflections from the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative. Environmental Justice, 10(6), 186–192.[ https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2017.0020](https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2017.0020)

Earthjustice. (2024, November 12). What Project 2025 Would Do to the Environment – and How We Will Respond. Earthjustice.[ https://earthjustice.org/article/what-project-2025-would-do-to-the-environment-and-how-we-will-respond](https://earthjustice.org/article/what-project-2025-would-do-to-the-environment-and-how-we-will-respond)

Environmental Data and Governance Initiative. (n.d.-a). Changing the Digital Climate: How Climate Change Web Content is Being Censored Under the Trump Administration,. Retrieved January 3, 2025, from[ https://envirodatagov.org/publication/changing-digital-climate/](https://envirodatagov.org/publication/changing-digital-climate/)

Environmental Data and Governance Initiative. (n.d.-b). Federal Environmental Web Tracker. Environmental Data and Governance Initiative. Retrieved January 3, 2025, from[ https://envirodatagov.org/federal-environmental-web-tracker-about-page/](https://envirodatagov.org/federal-environmental-web-tracker-about-page/)

Harmon, A. (2017, March 6). Activists Rush to Save Government Science Data—If They Can Find It. The New York Times.[ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/science/donald-trump-data-rescue-science.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/science/donald-trump-data-rescue-science.html)

Johnson, E., & Kubas, A. (2018, February 7). Spotlight on Digital Government Information Preservation: Examining the Context, Outcomes, Limitations, and Successes of the DataRefuge Movement. In the Library with the Lead Pipe.[ https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/information-preservation/](https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/information-preservation/)

Kosoff, M. (2017, January 25). Trump White House Orders E.P.A. to Delete Climate-Change Web Page. Vanity Fair.[ https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/trump-white-house-orders-epa-to-delete-climate-change-web-pages](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/trump-white-house-orders-epa-to-delete-climate-change-web-pages)

Lamdan, S. (2018). Lessons from Datarescue: The Limits of Grassroots Climate Change Data Preservation and the Need for Federal Records Law Reform. University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 231.[ https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3163616](https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3163616)

Nost, E., Gehrke, G., Poudrier, G., Lemelin, A., Beck, M., Wylie, S., & Initiative, on behalf of the E. D. & G. (2021). Visualizing changes to US federal environmental agency websites, 2016–2020. PLOS ONE, 16(2), e0246450.[ https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246450](https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246450)

Sens. Markey, Hirono and Rep. Adams Introduce Legislation to Promote Conservation and Preservation of Government and Historic Records. Retrieved January 3, 2025, from[ https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/sens-markey-hirono-and-rep-adams-introduce-legislation-to-promote-conservation-and-preservation-of-government-and-historic-records](https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/sens-markey-hirono-and-rep-adams-introduce-legislation-to-promote-conservation-and-preservation-of-government-and-historic-records)

Sisak, M. R., Colvin, J., & Whitehurst, L. (2023, June 10). A timeline of events leading to Donald Trump’s indictment in the classified documents case. AP News.[ https://apnews.com/article/trump-documents-investigation-timeline-087f0c9a8368bb983a16b67dd31dcd4c](https://apnews.com/article/trump-documents-investigation-timeline-087f0c9a8368bb983a16b67dd31dcd4c)

Stein, R. (2024, November 12). With Trump coming into power, the NIH is in the crosshairs. NPR.[ https://www.npr.org/2024/11/12/nx-s1-5183014/trump-election-2024-nih-rfk](https://www.npr.org/2024/11/12/nx-s1-5183014/trump-election-2024-nih-rfk)

Sunlight Foundation. (n.d.). How federal agencies are quietly removing government Web resources, and why it matters. Retrieved January 3, 2025, from[ https://sunlightfoundation.com/2017/11/15/how-federal-agencies-are-quietly-removing-web-resources-and-why-it-matters/](https://sunlightfoundation.com/2017/11/15/how-federal-agencies-are-quietly-removing-web-resources-and-why-it-matters/)

Tirrell, C., Senier, L., Wylie, S. A., Alder, C., Poudrier, G., DiValli, J., Beck, M., Nost, E., Brackett, R., & Gehrke, G. (2020). Learning in Crisis: Training students to monitor and address irresponsible knowledge construction by U.S. federal agencies under Trump. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 6, 81–93.[ https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2020.313](https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2020.313)

Vinik, D. (2017, July 25). What happened to Trump’s war on data? The Agenda.[ https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/07/25/what-happened-trump-war-data-000481](https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/07/25/what-happened-trump-war-data-000481)

Williams, R. (2017, January 29). Michigan web developers and archivists join race to back up federal agency data. Michigan Public.[ https://www.michiganpublic.org/environment-science/2017-01-29/michigan-web-developers-and-archivists-join-race-to-back-up-federal-agency-data](https://www.michiganpublic.org/environment-science/2017-01-29/michigan-web-developers-and-archivists-join-race-to-back-up-federal-agency-data)