Save the Data: Data Preservation Continues…
Continue being part of the Save the Data efforts!
More information about how to be involved in continued efforts coming soon!
PREVIOUS Save the Data: Data Preservation Event
Thursday, February 13, 2025
4:00-7:00pm — Stop by when you can — No registration needed
Ethics Lab — Healy Hall 201b (2nd floor) (Please note this location is wheelchair accessible from the Ground Floor of Maguire Hall which connects to Healy Hall ).
Join MDI and partners as we work to save open data from deletion. Learn how to save data, about the importance of data preservation, and help the research community continue to advance. No experience needed! Stop by anytime between 4:00-7:00pm.
Dinner and snacks will be served!
Accommodations: Please indicate accessibility requests by emailed mdiresearch@georgetown.edu by February 12, 2025. A good faith effort will be made to fulfill requests made after this date.
Transportation: Georgetown University is accessible for faculty, staff, students and visitors through many convenient transportation options, including our free university shuttle, public transportation, bicycling, carsharing and other means. Learn more about transportation options here. See here (Interactive map) or here (PDF) for a Georgetown University campus map.
Questions? Please contact mdiresearch@georgetown.edu.
Partnering Organizations
We are thrilled to be partnering with organizations across campus and beyond to make this effort possible.
Partnering Organizations (alphabetical order)
(list as of February 12, 2025)
- American Educational Research Association
- Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics
- Georgetown University Ethics Lab
- Georgetown University Department of Sociology
- Georgetown University Department of Computer Science
- Georgetown University Library
- Massive Data Institute
- University of Michigan Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) part of Institute for Social Research
- Urban Institute

About the Massive Data Institute (MDI):
At Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy, the Massive Data Institute (MDI) is an interdisciplinary research institute that connects experts across computer science, data science, public health, public policy, and social science to tackle societal scale issues and impact public policy in ways that improves people’s lives through responsible evidence-based research. For more information on MDI, please visit https://mdi.georgetown.edu/