Since Donald Trump's return to power, Lynda Kellam has been sleeping less. Outside of her working hours and her activities as secretary of IASSIST, an organization of public data professionals, she is part of a group of a dozen volunteers who are busy, in their spare time, day and night, running and coordinating the "Data Rescue Project."

They first coordinated a large part of the needs and actions for safeguarding American public data in a Google Doc, before switching to a dedicated site. These efforts rely on the goodwill of citizens and, above all, on dozens of organizations dedicated to archiving the web and public resources, made up in particular of archivists working in American universities.

So many associations and professionals are appalled by the purge of public data that has taken place in the US since January 20. On the day of his inauguration, Trump signed a series of executive orders setting the course for his second term: among them, texts designed to roll back US climate policy or put an end, in his administration, to DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) programs and policies.

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