[u-u] Guerrilla Archiving Event: Saving Environmental Data from Trump

[Doug Lee]

This event is happening at UofT this Saturday Dec 17 2016. A hackathon to 
try and preserve as much environmental data as possible prior to a feared 
Trump purge. Remember what happened when Harper closed various agencies. 
Years of precious data being thrown in the trash.

https://ischool.utoronto.ca/content/guerrilla-archiving-event-saving-environmental-data-trump

There is a Call to Action underway coming out of the Technoscience 
Research Unit at the University of Toronto, and happening at the Faculty 
of Information.

Two professors are calling on citizens to figure out if they "Care about 
Trump, data, or the environment?" Volunteers are invited to join in a full 
day of hackathon activities in preparation for the Trump presidency......

...The Internet Archive has asked volunteers to help select and organize 
information that will be preserved before the Trump transition. End of 
Term web archive: http://eotarchive.cdlib.org/2016.html New York Times 
article: "Harvesting Government History, One Web Page at a Time" 
http://nyti.ms/2gDz5Kj......

Activities:

1. Identifying endangered programs and data 2. Seeding the End of Term 
webcrawler with priority URLs 3. Identifying and mapping the location of 
inaccessible environmental databases 4. Hacking scripts to make accessible 
to the webcrawler hard to reach databases. 5. Building a toolkit so that 
other groups can hold similar events