# Archiving and Preservation of Civic and Government Data

“Data Refuge.” <https://www.datarefuge.org/>.

Jacobs, James A., and James R. Jacobs. “A Long-Term Goal For Creating A Digital Government-Information Library Infrastructure.” 2017-02-17. Libraries+ Network (blog).  <https://libraries.network/blog/2017/3/7/a-long-term-goal-for-creating-a-digital-government-information-library-infrastructure>.

Janz, Margaret Miller. “Maintaining Access to Public Data: Lessons from Data Refuge,” March 5, 2018. <https://doi.org/10.31229/osf.io/yavzh>.

Lippincott, Sarah K. “Environmental Scan of Government Information and Data Preservation Efforts and Challenges.” Atlanta, GA: Educopia Institute, December 2018. <https://educopia.org/pegi-environmental-scan/>.

Mayernik, Matthew S., Robert R. Downs, Ruth Duerr, Sophie Hou, Natalie Meyers, Nancy Ritchey, Andrea Thomer, and Lynn Yarmey. “Stronger Together: The Case for Cross-Sector Collaboration in Identifying and Preserving at-Risk Data.” Earth Science Information Partners, April 2017. <https://www.esipfed.org/press-releases/stronger-together>.“

PEGI Project. <https://www.pegiproject.org/>.

Temple University Libraries. “Future Proofing Civic Data: Exploring the Challenges of Preserving Open Civic Data for the Long Term T,” September 29, 2017. <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vymMtPf0PP17qehPeKXSCu-37mJOlvnEf9IKypXWWRA/edit#heading=h.a45xpvi99a5p>.


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