Harvard Law’s Innovation Lab Scrambles to Save Government Data

Harvard Law’s Innovation Lab Scrambles to Save Government Data

The unit is saving more than 300,000 data sets from Trump’s purges.

Harvard Law library is saving data that the Trump administration is removing

The Harvard Law School Library says it is releasing an archive of more than 300,000 government data sets, aiming to protect vital public information at a time when President Donald Trump’s administration is wiping it from the web. The initiative, announced Thursday by the Law School Library’s Innovation Lab, is one of several efforts to rescue official figures and government datasets as Trump and his billionaire allies take a wrecking ball to th…

Archiving effort to preserve Data.gov

The Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab is archiving Data.gov and making the data easy to download. So far, they have a collection of 311,000 datasets: This is the first release in our new data vault project to preserve and authenticate vital public datasets for academic research, policymaking, and public use. We’ve built this project on our long-standing commitment to preserving government records and making public information available t…

Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab Announces Launch of Data.gov Archive

From a Library Innovation Lab Post: Today we released our archive of data.gov on source.coop. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. It will be updated daily as new datasets are added to data.gov. This is the first release in our new data vault project to preserve and authenticate vital public datasets for academic research, policymaking…