DATAMIRROR

In early 2017, UC3 created Datamirror.org as an independent, dynamic, online mirror of Data.gov, the US federal government's primary research data portal. Developed in collaboration with Code for Science & Society (CSS), a non-profit organization supporting innovative uses of technology for public good, Datamirror was intended to provide additional levels of assurance that the significant research data found at Data.gov remains freely accessible to the scholarly community and the public for open retrieval and reuse. As noted by the government's Project Open Data initiative, "Data is a valuable national resource and a strategic asset to the U.S. Government, its partners, and the Public." Thus, Datamirror.org plays a critical role in protecting this valuable resource from risks of data loss or loss of availability due to technological obsolescence, funding constraints, shifting organizational priorities, malicious attack, or inadvertent error... The reason for this is to provide greater..