**Data Rescue Event** --------------------- **Location:** Johns Hopkins University **Dates**: Tuesday, July 18th Wednesday, July 19th 2017 **Objective:** Develop data rescue framework focused on scale and urgency Based on exchanges between various participants of this event and Joan Saez of Data Rescue Boulder, a group of individuals and institutions wish to develop a framework for data rescue that embraces the need to act quickly for the largescale of federal data that may be at risk. While there are other, noteworthy efforts in place, this group wishes to focus on developing specific technological capabilities within the broader network of data rescue efforts. Some of the possible technologies in place to consider include OSF, Fedora, Data Conservancy, IPFS in connection with existing workflows in place from prior data rescue events. **Working Assumptions:** - There are many components to an overall data rescue framework. - This group does not intend to address all of these components. - Rather, this event will focus on the prospects for engaging research libraries that would set up OSF projects as part of an overall collection development program. - These OSF projects would become part of an overall workflow and architecture that accounts for distributed copies of data within library archives. - This event fits somewhere between the initial rescue efforts of EDGI and Data Rescue Boulder, and largerscale infrastructure and community efforts such as DC and IPFS. - Scale matters. These initial efforts need to become part of a broader framework to address largescale federal datasets such as NASA’s Landsat data. - Urgency matters. While there is undoubtedly value in broader engagement and planning, the work of Data Rescue Boulder has demonstrated the need to act quickly, at least from the perspective of developing sustainable technological capacity. **Resources:** <a href="http://dataconservancy.org/dataconservancyanddatarescueboulderpilot/">Data Conservancy blog post</a> <a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA4x/Fedora+4.x+Documentation">Fedora</a> <a href="https://ipfs.io/">Inter-Planetary File System - IPFS</a> <a href="https://osf.io">Open Science Framework - OSF</a> **In the news:** <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/as-climate-change-fades-from-government-sites-a-struggle-to-archive-data/"> Frontline article: As Climate Change Fades from Government Sites a Struggle to Archive Data. </a>