Frank
I haven’t been keeping up with posting, as these past few months have been atypical. April was devoted to attending conferences and giving presentations. Much of this was prompted by my recent work with the Data Rescue Project, and the HIFLD Open rescue initiative in particular. The month began...
Frank
Last December, the Data Rescue Project (DRP) finished an initiative to download and archive over 400 geospatial data layers from the defunct HIFLD Open repository to DataLumos, an ICPSR-sponsored repository for federal government datasets. I wrote this brief post that summarized our work. The...
Frank
Some good news to end the year: the Data Rescue Project has finished archiving all of the GIS data layers that were in the HIFLD Open portal, which was decommissioned at the end of summer. I wrote a post for the DRP that summarized the work we did, and you can find all the layers in ICPSR’s...
Frank
Just when we thought the US government couldn’t possibly become more dysfunctional, it shut down completely on Sept 30, 2025. Government websites are not being updated, and many have gone offline. I’ve had trouble accessing data.census.gov; access has been intermittent, and sometimes it has worked...