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Things Fall Apart: Lessons from a Defunded Data Repository

De Sherbinin, Alexander M.

This essay documents the last days of the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), which was hosted by the Center for Integrated Earth System Information (CIESIN) at Columbia University from 1998-2025, with particular focus on CIESIN's data rescue efforts.

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Data Science Journal
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https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2026-009

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Center for Integrated Earth System Information
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April 2, 2026