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Coders and librarians team up to save scientific data

A group of students, computer programmers and other volunteers gathered on a snowy night at a former mill in Dover, N.H., to participate in a nationwide data rescue effort to archive scientific ... read more

Coders Are Racing to Save NASA's Climate Data | Live Science

A group of coders is racing to save the government's climate science data. On Saturday (Feb. 11), 200 programmers crammed themselves into the Doe Library at the University of California, Berkeley ... read more

Diehard Coders Just Rescued NASA's Earth Science Data

Diehard Coders Just Rescued NASA's Earth Science Data Hackers are building up robust systems to monitor changes to government websites. And they’re keeping track of data that's been removed. read more

Coders to the rescue for NASA’s Earth science data | Grist

One coder who goes by Tek ran into a wall trying to download multi-satellite precipitation data from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Starting in August, access to Goddard Earth Science Data ... read more

Coders Aim to Archive Climate Data | Earth And The Environment

On Saturday coders around the country joined a hackathon organized by DataRefuge and the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, racing to archive NASA’s climate science data before the country ... read more