> What I'm missing from this announcement though is any mention of how they intend to secure this "vault" against the current government. Maybe this? > In add

> What I'm missing from this announcement though is any mention of how they intend to secure this "vault" against the current government. Maybe this? > In addition to the data collection, we are releasing open source software and documentation for replicating our work and creating similar repositories. With these tools, we aim not only to preserve knowledge ourselves but also to empower others to save and access the data that matters to them. https://github.com/harvard-lil/data-vault https://github.com/harvard-lil/data-vault And since the data lives here: https://source.coop/repositories/harvard-lil/gov-data/description https://source.coop/repositories/harvard-lil/gov-data/descri... Combined with this: > To download an individual dataset by name you can construct its URL, such as: > https://source.coop/harvard-lil/gov-data/collections/data_gov/fruit-and-vegetable-prices/v1.zip https://source.coop/harvard-lil/gov-data/collections/data_go... > https://source.coop/harvard-lil/gov-data/metadata/data_gov/fruit-and-vegetable-prices/v1.json https://source.coop/harvard-lil/gov-data/metadata/data_gov/f... > To download large numbers of files, we recommend the aws or rclone command line tools: > aws s3 cp s3://us-west-2.opendata.source.coop/harvard-lil/gov-data/collections/data_gov/<name>/v1.zip --no-sign-request So one could "easily" mirror the whole thing, making it distributed.