Did you know that Endangered Data Week is happening from February 26-March 2? Endangered Data Week is a collaborative effort to help highlight on public datasets that are in danger of being deleted, repressed, mishandled, or lost. Inspired by recent events that have shown how fragile publicly administered data is, Endangered Data Week hopes to promote care for endangered collections by publicizing datasets and increasing engagement with them, and through advocating for political activism.

The Endangered Data Week organizes hope to cultivate a broad community of supporters for access to public data, and who advocate for open data policies and help cultivate data skills and competencies among students and colleagues. During Endangered Data Week, librarians, scholars and activists will use the #EndangeredData Twitter hashtag, as well as host events across the country.

While this is the first year of Endangered Data Week, the organizers hope to work both on the momentum of similar movements, such as Sunshine Week, Open Access Week, and the #DataRescue, and to continue organizing events into the future.

What are you doing during Endangered Data Week? Let us know in the comments!