EDGI is grateful to have participated in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for the first time in 2017. Our mentoring team of six volunteer EDGI members worked with two students, Harsh Baid and Janak Raj Chadha, who successfully completed projects for our Archiving and Web Monitoring areas. Their dedication and work led them to make … Read more
On August 28 at Northeastern University in Boston, EDGI convened an interdisciplinary group of Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholars, civic tech practitioners, and community science organizers who work on either environmental or data politics to begin collectively imagining Environmental Data Justice (EDJ) as a framework for engaged STS. We came together to create a … Read more
Written by Harsh Baid. Reblogged with permission from Harsh Baid’s Blog: https://harshbaid.com/blog/2017/working-with-edgi/ Introduction Over the past 3 months, as part of Google Summer of Code 2017 (GSoC), I spent my time working with the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI). EDGI is a network of scientists, professors, and other non-profits that came together in response … Read more
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A broad coalition of environmental, public health and public interest groups, including prominent African American and Latino organizations, issued the following joint statement in response to this past weekend’s white nationalist gathering and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia and President Trump’s inexplicable reversal as to who’s to blame for the violence: “Our nation … Read more
Written by Janak Raj Chadha. Identifying and Prioritizing Important Website Changes Introduction The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) is an international network of academics and non-profits addressing potential threats to federal environmental and energy policy, and to the scientific research infrastructure built to investigate and inform. EDGI monitors thousands of government webpages to identify … Read more
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