Resources on AIDS prevention and care, weather records, references to ethnic or gender minorities: numerous databases were destroyed or modified after Trump signed an executive order in January declaring diversity, equality and inclusion programs and policies within the federal governmentto be illegal.
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And the National Children’s Health Survey page displays a “404 error” message.
“The focus has been on removing language related to environmental (or) climate justice on websites, as well as removing data and tools related to environmental (or) climate justice,“ Eric Nost, a geographer at Canada’s University of Guelph and member of the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) told AFP.
EDGI, a consortium of academics and volunteers, began safeguarding public climate and environmental data after Trump's first election in 2016.
These systems, which long predate Trump’s election, help “courts and law journals preserve the web pages they cite to,“ said Jack Cushman, director of the Library Innovation Lab.
This data is then stored on servers in a large digital library, allowing anyone to consult it freely.
Archiving initiatives have multiplied, expanded and coordinated since Trump's return to the White House.
“We were concerned about data being deleted. We wanted to try to see what we could do to rescue them,“ Lynda Kellam, a university librarian and DRP organizer, told AFP.
It is now maintained by volunteers “who are working after work” to keep it running, said Kellam.
The data collection work, largely carried out by associations and university libraries, is threatened by a lack of resources.
“We need to fund coordinators for the ongoing effort, new tools, and new homes for the data.”
“Data is the modern lighthouse, helping us plan our lives: it shows where we are so we can plan where we’re going,“ Cushman said.
“Businesses, individuals, and governments will suffer greatly from any failure to collect and share reliable data on weather and climate, health, justice, housing, employment, and so on.”
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