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By Members of EDGI’s Website Monitoring Committee: Andrew Bergman (@andmbergman), Toly Rinberg, and Gretchen Gehrke  (For inquiries, please contact edgi.websitemonitoring@protonmail.com) August 3, 2017 – Between the evenings of July 27 and July 28, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) removed substantial portions of its Climate Hubs website, hosted at the URL https://www.climatehubs.oce.usda.gov/. This is how the … Read more

Three members of EDGI attended Web Archiving Week, #waweek2017, held in London from June 12 – 16, 2017. Located at the Senate House, University of London and the British Library Knowledge Centre, the week consisted of three events: Archives Unleashed 4.0 Datathon, International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Web Archiving Conference (WAC) 2017, and RESAW (a … Read more

We are excited to announce that we will be working with DataKind and DataCorps volunteers in the coming months on “Filtering and Classification to Automate the Protection of Environmental Government Data” around our Website Monitoring project! Launched in 2011, DataKind has offices world-wide and looks to bring volunteers and together with organizations focused on social … Read more

EDGI is delighted to announce that we are the 2017 recipient of the J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award given by the Society of American Archivists (SAA)! The award honors an individual, institution, or organization that promotes greater public awareness, appreciation, or support of archival activities or programs. This award recognizes the work of EDGI … Read more

By EDGI’s Website Monitoring Committee: Toly Rinberg, Andrew Bergman, Maya Anjur-Dietrich, and Gretchen Gehrke (For inquiries, please contact edgi.websitemonitoring@protonmail.com)   July 12, 2017 — On July 11, E&E News reported that resources relating to the EPA’s Endangerment Finding [1], linked from the EPA’s “Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases under the Section 202(a) of the … Read more

by Lindsey Dillon, EDGI Member, Op-Ed reblogged from The Conversation. Abandoned industrial buildings at San Francisco’s Pier 70, with a smokestack in the background. Lindsey Dillon, CC BY-NC-ND San Francisco has embarked on a project to transform its industrial southeast waterfront into a bike-friendly destination called the Blue Greenway. When completed, the Blue Greenway will be a 13-mile network of … Read more

EDGI has been working diligently to plan for the future based on overwhelming and ongoing interest in data archiving and engagement with government data! Thanks to everyone who participated in the DataRescue Townhall on April 1, and also to the event organizers, attendees, and members of librarian, archival, and environmental advocacy communities who provided feedback … Read more

By EDGI’s Website Monitoring Committee: Gretchen Gehrke, Maya Anjur-Dietrich, Andrew Bergman, and Toly Rinberg (For inquiries, please contact edgi.websitemonitoring@protonmail.com) June 30, 2017 — On Tuesday, June 27, the EPA formally proposed a rule to rescind the Obama administration’s 2015 Clean Water Rule, which extended the authority of the federal government to regulate pollution in more wetlands … Read more

The EDGI tech team had a great time at the Mozilla Global Sprint from June 1-2, 2017! We identified some low-hanging fruit on our Web Montoring project that would be accessible to new contributors, and were rewarded with a big first-time contribution: Mock-ups of a new user interface for the web monitoring project We’ve been … Read more

EDGI just published a new report covering our activities since mid-November until the beginning of May! Some highlights: We’ve dramatically improved the Internet Archive’s “End-of-Term” project of archiving of federal environmental websites. Thanks to our effort, webpage nominations increased by 10-fold from those in 2012, and the EPA is now the Internet Archive’s most comprehensively … Read more