Other Archiving Efforts

These are other current initiatives that we know about. If you’re running one that’s not on our list, please get in touch!

• Archive-It has a team of people capturing Ukrainian government sites, and the .ua domain in general
• Library of Congress: archiving websites from Ukraine and the Russian-annexed areas.
• Ivy Plus SEEES affinity group: adding endangered sites from the region (including Ukraine) to an IPLC digital collection called Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union (on Internet Archive).
• UC Berkley: documenting Ukraine Crisis 2022 on Archive-IT; it is a continuation of their Crimean Crisis Web Archive. Contact is Liladhar Pendse.
• Internet Archive Global Events: discussion is under way for a web archiving project on the war in Ukraine.
• American Folklore Society: backups of research and collection data for folklorists, ethnologists, and heritage institutions in Ukraine. We welcome colleagues in need to email: [email protected]
• University of Alberta’s U-ART project: data backup for archival institutions, research institutions, individual scholars in all disciplines. Contact U-ART.
• “Backup Ukraine” project by the Danish UNESCO National Commission and Blue Shield Denmark. Volunteers can digitally preserve important architecture, landmarks, and monuments using an app that creates a 3D scan.