@marcus-jay
It’s about more, though, than just archiving data that might be restricted or deleted. For historical and reference purposes it is vital to create copies of information you think might be lost. Past data is useful to give a picture of society and the planet at a given point in time, and it’s essential for analyzing trends. But unless this digital library of data—a library funded by taxpayers—is available to everyone, it won’t be able to do what it was gathered to do, which is to help inform our understanding about the world and guide decisions.
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