Data Rescue Day at Rice University/Fondren Library

Hey everyone - the library is at capacity for this event! If you're not going to make it, please open up a spot for someone else. Thanks!

We're going to catalog and archive government datasets before they disappear. This event is organized by librarians and academics at Rice University, and everyone is welcome to attend. Please be sure to register here too! (https://goo.gl/forms/cJ6s2BYkKlXFv4753)

Data Rescue Houston brings together programmers, librarians, scientists, students, archivists, technologists, and other volunteers to identify, download, and help preserve publicly accessible federal data resources in the public interest, ensuring their long-term accessibility.

Mark your calendars! Data Rescue Houston will take Saturday, March 4 from 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.. The event will be held at Rice University.

We welcome participants with a range of backgrounds. Likely tasks include:

-Exploring websites to identify data sets
-Developing and implementing scripts and tools to scrape data
-Verifying data integrity
-Uploading data
-Documenting our work
-Coordinating groups

View the website here: https://datarescuehouston.wordpress.com/

Join the Facebook group here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/368865020166842/

Check out the datasets here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yIrhFrZkv2Yhdk48W_P5bd-C-jxLtbzJFcm2E5oq-ec/edit#gid=1173042373

Join us for a day of civic technology and citizen archiving. Together we can protect public access to data critical for research and democracy.

Data Rescue Houston is part of the Data Refuge Project.