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All the data appear to still be available here: https://open.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/

I think that might just be the usual revamping of the White House website for the new administration. I spot-checked a few datasets and it looked like they are still available at the link above.

Mods, a better title for this might be "White House Open Data Page Archived"? And the link changed to the above link?

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Thanks, this is exactly what I suspected would happen.

Same thing as the last panic when they switched the web server and pages on major Obama policies vanished. Just an entirely new webapp moved in.

Defend your policies, whatever you stand for, but please don't panic over a website changing hands.

But does this also mean that there won't be any new open data shared by the new administration? If a revamped open data site doesn't ever land then this is still pretty disturbing.

I'm not sure - did any good really come of the Obama admin's open data? I don't think I saw any going to particularly good use myself at least.

While open data in general may be good, if it produces no real valuable results it may be more work than it's worth.

Thanks for sharing this! The notion of archiving "Open Data" due to a change in government still seems odd considering this is factual, time-stamped data.

All digital properties go to a clean slate when the Presidency changes hands. There's nothing odd about this. It's similar to the physical aspects of the government, such as cabinet posts, that are directly under the Presidents purview. It being factual really has no bearing on this, although given that for data it just gets archived rather than completely purged it seems to be an incredibly reasonable treatment.

The title of this post, on the other hand, is, dare I say, an alternative fact.

Apparently they changed the software used to store the data, in the bottom on https://open.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/ it says "powered by dkan", on https://open.whitehouse.gov/ it says "powered by socrata". Maybe it was not easily possible to migrate the data and/or it is planned to be done later.

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