Digital Archivists trying to preserve Ukrainian heritage, one website at a time.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech, I'm Kimberly Adams.

On this holiday, we're revisiting an episode we aired shortly after the beginning of Russia's

invasion of Ukraine, a war that has disrupted and ended many lives and destroyed homes,

infrastructure, whole communities. But at the time, the cultural heritage of Ukraine was also at high

risk. Some Ukrainian museum websites went offline as the servers hosting them lost connections

or were destroyed in attacks. To prevent that information and cultural memory from disappearing

entirely, more than 1,000 archivists, programmers and librarians volunteered to form a group

called Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online or Succio. They've been recording and archiving

these websites before they go offline. Kwindum Browski is an academic technology specialist

at Sanford University who's been working on this project. Digital cultural heritage, I think,

is an outgrowth of the way that the internet has worked. People have developed websites for museums

and for libraries and for archives that feature 3D models of particularly special objects, high

resolution images, things like digitized texts and manuscripts that talk about the history of

Ukraine. We want to make sure that those materials continue to be available and continue to be

presented in the way that their curator is intended. So how are you archiving these pages?

We are sending URLs to the internet archives way back machine. We're also using an open source

software called Web Recorder. And what Web Recorder does is it captures high fidelity versions of

a website just as if a person were navigating it. So with Web Recorder, we're able to capture

virtual tours where you can walk through a museum. And these are things that are traditionally

very difficult to capture through Web Archives, but Web Recorder allows us to do that.

So can you give an example of a website that's been archived as part of the project and

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