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Government Information: FDLP and More

GOVERNMENT INFORMATION refers to any information disseminated by a government agency (local, state, tribal, federal, foreign, international), in addition to the information generated by non-government entities but sponsored by government funds.

Articles On Government Data Rescue Efforts

Why EDGI is Archiving Public Environmental Data, blog post from EDGI
Preserving federal health data by The Journalist's Resource out of the Harvard Kennedy School
404 media article citing EDGI, EOT, James Jacobs
This January 31, 2025 newsletter, Garbage Day, mentions some coordinating efforts by Health Professionals and Journalists to gather the CDC data
Lending a hand with EOT Crawl from the PEGI Project.
Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday” by Ethan Singer.
The Government Information Crisis Is Bigger Than You Think It Is blog post by Free Government Information
CDC removes gender, equity references in public health material from WaPo
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals from Inside Medicine
A Look at Federal Health Data Taken Offline from KFF

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