Q&A: Helping Data Rescuers understand IPFS

[flyingzumwalt]

The purpose of this thread is to provide a place where people engaged in the effort to save endangered climate data can post all of their questions and requests so that the IPFS community can either answer the questions, point to good documentation, or record feature requests in the right git repositories. Why? The effort to rescue endangered climate data is important. It’s also kicking up a lot of great ideas and great questions that will help us improve our documentation and refine our use cases.

Some background reading:

• Washington Post: Energy and Environment
  Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump
• DataRescue Philly Builds DataRefuge
• Using IPFS to Help Back up data.gov datasets
• Instructions for Saving Endangered Data: It’s time to get decentralized.

[mukka]

Why is climate data endangered?

[flyingzumwalt]

@mukka I’ve added background reading to the top of the thread. It has links to articles explaining what’s up.