Federal Knowledge Preservation Project
Help us verify that you are or were a federal employee or contractor by providing:
- The last letter of your first and last name.
- An accessible federal government email address (.gov or .mil).
If an accessible federal government email address is not available, a personal email address along with a referral code can be used.
A referral code can be obtained from a colleague who has contributed to this project, or requested at: preservingfedknowledge [@ key] gmail [. or period key] com.
When emailing us for a referral code, please include your website, social media links or any other info to help us identify you, reducing the risk of nonsense in the database.
Why ask for letters in a name?
We will not store your letters in our system. Your information will be used to generate a unique participant code and a referral code that will be emailed to the address you provide.
Why ask for an email address?
We will use your email address to send your participant and referral codes. We will not store your email address in our system. It will be deleted as soon as you navigate to the next page.
What do I do with the referral code?
You can pass along your referral code to help others share their federal knowledge. This includes current and former federal employees or contractors with or without a federal government email address.
Referral codes provide an additional layer of trust in the information being submitted. Referral codes can be shared through DMs, but should not be posted anywhere online (examples: Discord, Slack, Reddit, Signal, etc.).
Data security and privacy policies?
Your knowledge is most valuable by putting it out there so we want to make it publicly available ASAP. We don’t want any personally identifiable information in there.
Our database is a piece of hardware we can get to, not in the cloud or located thousands of miles away owned by a private company. Your form code, not your email address, will be your key to using this website going forward.
What will you do with the information?
Publish it and get the word out that this exists. Partner with other federal government data preservation champions to link our resources. Maybe even create a blog to update you and others.