When public data disappears, researchers, archivists, and volunteers often step in to preserve it. This page highlights some of the most important “data safehouses” — repositories, mirror sites, and recreated tools that protect vulnerable datasets and keep them accessible to the public. Together they form a growing network dedicated to safeguarding scientific, environmental, and government information for future research and accountability.

Resources

Harvard Law School

Archive of over 300,000 datasets mirrored from Data.gov

Data Rescue Project (DPR)

Aggregates efforts of multiple preservation initiatives to create the largest available collection of independently "rescued" federal data

ICPSR

Crowd-sourced archive of US government data

Climate Central

Continuing a NOAA database and display map

Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP)

Recreating EPA and CEQ data tools

Resources

Harvard Law School

Archive of over 300,000 datasets mirrored from Data.gov

Data Rescue Project (DPR)

Aggregates efforts of multiple preservation initiatives to create the largest available collection of independently "rescued" federal data

ICPSR

Crowd-sourced archive of US government data

Climate Central

Continuing a NOAA database and display map

Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP)

Recreating EPA and CEQ data tools

SciOp

Index of US government data, and other threated datasets, preserved by a peer-to-peer file sharing community

Resistance Rangers

Collection of altered and removed National Park Service (NPS) exhibits, uses the Wayback Machine to compare versions of NPS webapges

Save Our Signs

Photo archive of NPS signs taken before and after alteration from the Trump administration

DEC Document Search

Collection of preserved doucments from the USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC)

Climate.us

Re-created climate resources from the defunct NOAA wesbite, Climate.gov

Seer.ai

Preserving and displaying DHS infrastructure data

Fulton Ring

Recreating a FEMA climate change data tool

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Data Safehouses

Your map to our favorite research preservation sites

May 11, 2026