Create "where's the data" landing/search page

[dcwalk]

From @titaniumbones in #121:

We're often asked this question, and we often have a very hard time answering, because the "data" might be in any of several places. We should incrementally improve our capacity to answer this question, with:

• a search form or chatbot that executes most of those searches for the user

Our current status is:

• The "Archiving" EDGI page reflects part of this: https://envirodatagov.org/archiving/
• We have a nascent way to visualize the "coverage" in: https://alpha.archivers.space/coverage

In (old) convos on this a couple of thoughts were tossed around including

• those "help me pick..." one page sites (e.g. https://takenet.github.io/ ; whatthef*shouldimakefordinner. com)
• form-filling queries on IA's site if possible

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In the future, a robot will take care of this process!

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This is an issue we're still hearing a lot. I think we should spend some time thinking about this (and the coverage repo) as an org and especially within Archiving WG. cc @lightandluck

[lightandluck]

Agree, this is an aspect of the Archiving WG that I've never gotten a handle on, so would love to improve clarity for anyone interested in this question (which includes me!)

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@lightandluck I feel like we've come a long way in our understanding of data generally since this conversation– what do you think about this issue at this point?

[lightandluck]

Personally I don't know what the archived data is? I think I've heard that stuff is in the Internet Archive, but I don't know what the list of those things are or how to find them in the IA.

Have you been able to find that out?

[patcon]

fwiw I heard this "where's the data" question just last night from @dkurukula.

I maybe had the wrong answer, but basically said that it all migrated into other systems like Internet Archive, and that the more active focus of EDGI had become web-monitoring

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As far as I know that's more or less correct (though, active focus of EDGI is a good bit broader, now covering environmental data justice, theories for future of archiving through decentralized technologies, etc. as well as web monitoring)

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