The slides of my talk at #WHY2025 "Safeguarding Research & Culture: Save public data from the digital bookburnings!" are now online:
https://hu.berlin/SRC-WHY2025
Recording here (27min):
https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-238-safeguarding-research-culture-save-public-data-from-the-digital-bookburnings
(Wow, awesome work by @c3voc 
)
More context: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/B8DANE/
Au weia! Was soll man da noch sagen 
Ich teile die Frustration! Ich persönlich habe seit mehr als 12 Jahren versucht, Bewusstsein für das was jetzt #safeguardingresearch heisst zu wecken, z.T explizit mit PubMed als Beispiel. Ich kann nur feststellen, dass ich damit vollständig versagt habe. Auch im Nachhinein fällt mir aber auch nichts ein, was ich ausser trommeln und schreien hätte machen können?
A group dealing with at-risk educational materials is looking for help:
"The Digital Public Goods Library is looking for librarian volunteers who have experience cataloging materials with education-related metadata in a digital library environment, to assist in identifying and making available public domain and openly licensed educational materials that are either at-risk or have lost their digital home."
Hackathon: Data Under Threat / Data Rescueing (Aug 7) in #München
The LMU Open Science Center (@lmu_osc) runs a hackathon to support the #SciOp #SafeguardingResearch initiative: Rescuing research data that is deleted by the Trump administration.
Bonus: @lavaeolus will give an ignition talk!
Thursday, 2025-08-07, 16 – 19 (only in-person)
Details and signup: https://github.com/lmu-osc/safeguar.de-hackathon
Become a data rescuer by turning your own laptop into a Research Data Rescue Node, scraping at-risk data sets, and breathing new life into your old HDD as part of a global, decentralised network.
#LMUMünchen #OpenScience #OpenData #DataRescue
CC @SafeguardingResearch @bitsUndBaeumeAuxMuc
I revived an old HDD with a #RaspberryPi Zero W 2 for #DataRescue:ing:
It runs ...
(a) a Bittorrent client that seeds at-risk data sets from the #SciOp database
(b) the `sciop-scraper` script to get new datasets into the swarm
Setup instructions for the Pi Zero: https://codeberg.org/nicebread/HiveSeed/src/branch/main/L1-RDRN_RPi.md
Setup instructions for `sciop-scrape` (on macOS & RPi): https://codeberg.org/nicebread/HiveSeed/src/branch/main/L1-sciop-scrape.md
Let me know if the instructions work for you; happy to collaborate on the manual.
Added a 10 Terabyte seeding node to the #SciOp #SafeguardingResearch swarm; focusing on large (> 1 TB) data sets with 0 or 1 seeders.
Very nice article about saving academic data, digital sovereignty, and some criticism re lack of transparency:
https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/saving-academic-data-is-easier-than-you-think-and-you-can-do-it-too
Featuring @frepa314 & @lavaeolus
#SafeguardingResearch
About US research data under threat and how everyone can contribute to saving it - @lavaeolus and me were interviewed in the TU Delft paper Delta: https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/saving-academic-data-is-easier-than-you-think-and-you-can-do-it-too mostly regarding our parts in the Safeguarding Research and Culture initiative at https://safeguar.de
#TUDelft #SafeguardingResearch #SciOp
@gmoke You don't have to be a scientist to join #SafeGuardingResearch as a volunteer. Follow @SafeguardingResearch for more informations.
#research #culture #science #academics #volunteering #citizenScience
@JulianOliver
Data comes in many forms, but not every time there is a dataset ready to be saved:
We, together with @datarescueproject.org and partners need YOUR help in preserving American history – but this time, we need you to put on your ranger hat and boots, and trek to your local national park to #SaveOurSigns
#NationalPark #NPS #SafeguardingResearch
Please share widely! <3
@jonny With the updated commands I got it to run now (with minor modifications) on macOS. On RPi I will try again tomorrow (currently no access to the machine).
I am currently scraping „rp_enchanter_ver02“ with 24 GB and counting. Three questions:
(1) Can I know how large the download will be?
(2) Can I stop the scraping, or will the download then be corrupted?
(3) I assume that after downloading it automatically starts seeding?
Should we keep this conversation on (a) Mastodon, (b) safeguar.de forum or (c) Codeberg issues? Where can most people profit from it?
@jonny you could perhaps connect with #safeguardingresearch @SafeguardingResearch ?
Hi @histodons
We (@SafeguardingResearch) have been working on creating a backup of Chronicling America.
(1 large pull + many smaller ones)
https://sciop.net/datasets/chronicling-america
Do you know of any similar activities?
Would be great to combine efforts :)
Boosts 
#SafeguardingResearch #histodons
I am looking forward to our event "Data, Power, Control – Digital Science Between Resilience and Restriction" at the @ECDF this Thursday (July 3) at 4 p.m. tinyurl.com/yd8rd6fj
We will have some very interesting presentations on #Safeguardingresearch by @lavaeolus, feminist and queer data science, and narrative resilience for countering right-wing digital dominance.
There is still time to register for the event, if you want to come by: https://events.tu-berlin.de/e/10005186_GDN
Even now, when people start #SafeguardingResearch we are making the same mistakes again! As you point out in your article, all our outputs are in danger, be it research data or papers. And GitHub is a single point of failure foir scholarly code, too!
All of our outputs are under threat. If we had to invent infrastructures for our outputs, nobody would invent different silos for each output, so linking code, data and text together would be made more difficult, rather than easier?
I can only repeat that our institution would offer support (in various ways) towards further decentralizing and hence safeguarding FlyBase and other crucial infrastructure.
Update: Got the right now 
There will be things happening under #SaveOurSigns soon.
Is here someone experienced in setting up #WikimediaCommons Upload Campaigns?
If yes, I got a question re requesting the permission to create one :)
See: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_rights#Upload_Wizard_campaign_editors
(related to #SafeguardingResearch)
Boosts very welcome
#Wikimedia
"On the Value of Being Unorthodox: Resilience in a Time of Hostility against Arts and Sciences"
The slides of my ignition talk for #oscibar2025 can be found here:
https://hu.berlin/oscibar2025 and on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15688618
And also via BitTorrent^^
https://sciop.net/uploads/f4411cececdf1bc7b49146437e0fffdf2d862bced2f210e71ca4d3bdbeb2dbbe
