Data Rescue / Guerrilla Archiving

The organized community practice of mirroring and archiving at-risk institutional or public datasets before they can be taken down, so open copies keep the data alive.

grounded in: HN trend theme 'Open-data resilience & preservation: When institutional data is taken down, open mirrors and archives are what keep it alive.'

Connected concepts

Digital preservation, LOCKSS (many-replica preservation), Content-addressed networking, Open-weight LLMs