Research Guides: The Russian War in Ukraine: Saving Ukrainian Archival Data

Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO)

“We noticed that people had submitted major Ukrainian cultural heritage sites to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine immediately after the Russian invasion,” said Anna Kijas. “But many of those crawls only meaningfully captured the front page of the site – they were missing most of the digitized collections and multimedia holdings.”

Volunteers Unite to Archive Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Press Release, 2022

Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO)
A group of cultural heritage professionals – librarians, archivists, researchers, programmers – working together to identify and archive at-risk sites, digital content, and data in Ukrainian cultural heritage institutions while the country is under attack.