Over the past month, more than 1,300 librarians, historians, teachers, and young children have been saving Ukraine’s Internet archives, backing up everything from census data to children’s poems to Ukrainian basket weaving techniques. "Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online" has preserved more than 2,500 museums, libraries, and archives on rented servers, eliminating the risk they’ll be lost forever. It shows how volunteers, with low-cost technology, training and organization, can protect a country’s history from disasters.

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