SUCHO Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Web Archives

Web archives of Open Access collections from more than 3,000 websites of Ukrainian cultural institutions, such as museums, libraries, and archives. The archives were produced by the volunteer group Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO), which includes more than 1,300 international professionals. The data was saved during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine to preserve digitized cultural heritage before servers were potentially destroyed or offline.

Use Cases

• Preserving digitized cultural heritage based on web archives from Ukrainian institutions
• Analyzing the content and structure of archived websites based on the WACZ format
• Studying the impact of conflict on digital cultural assets based on the collection's creation context

Strengths

• Archives from more than 3,000 websites of Ukrainian cultural institutions
• Created by a volunteer group of more than 1,300 international professionals
• Saved digitized heritage during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine

Limitations

• File sizes range from a few MBs to several TBs, which may complicate download and processing
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO)

Collection Method

Created using the tools of the Webrecorder Open Source project in the open WACZ format.

Geography

Ukraine