As the Russian military continues its invasion, Ukrainian arts organizations are striving to protect the nation’s cultural heritage—including the websites and digital archives of its museums and libraries:
As the Russian military continues its invasion, Ukrainian arts organizations are striving to protect the nation’s cultural heritage—including the websites and digital archives of its museums and libraries. has been working around the clock to back-up and preserve data and technology, all of which are threatened by the war.
Since launching on March 1, SUCHO has made digital archives for more than 1,500 websites, digital exhibits, open access publications, and other online resources from Ukrainian cultural organizations, for a total of three terabytes of data as of Wednesday. The three connected on Twitter after Kijas posted on February 26 about staging a virtual data rescue session for Ukrainian cultural heritage institutions’ music collections. She had noticed that while people were adding websites to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, only the main homepage was being captured, leaving digitized collections and other content vulnerable.
With support from around the globe, the project quickly secured emergency grants from two leading digital humanities organizations, the Association for Computers and the Humanities and European Association for Digital Humanities. A grant from Amazon Web Services powers SUCHO’s storage infrastructure and cloud web archiving environment, and Digital Ocean has provided a grant for more cloud web archiving servers.
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