Are you worried about the changes proposed by the incoming White House administration? Wondering how you can help bolster government accountability and transparency?
 
How about joining a constellation of “Data Rescue” efforts being organized across the US to preserve publicly available data about critical areas such as climate, education, or healthcare? With your help, our local community can contribute to preserving at-risk data to ensure access for future information seekers and researchers.
 
The University of Washington Information School’s Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives (CALMA) is hosting two Seattle campus-based emergency “Data Rescues” events this month. These events are open to everyone, no matter your skill level or areas of interest. Lunch and snacks will be provided.

Pease register for either or both events here.
 
What is a Data Rescue: Modeled after the 2016-2017 “Data Rescues, guerilla archiving actions,” these events are volunteer run hackathons meaning collaborative drop-in events where people work together on a variety of digital archiving tasks over a short period of time (1-3 hrs).  More information