DEF CON 33 - Building Onramps for Emergency Web Archiving in Ukraine and Beyond - Quinn Dombrowski
Source: YouTube · DEFCONConference · published Oct 10, 2025 · 35:48
BLUF: Quinn Nouski describes the urgent volunteer effort to preserve Ukrainian digital cultural heritage through emergency web archiving following Russia's 2022 invasion, successfully saving at-risk websites, museums, and artifacts 0:49, 4:56.
Key Takeaways:
• The project began spontaneously after a tweet, quickly growing to 400 volunteers preserving Ukrainian digital materials 6:10.
• Challenges included no roadmap for emergency archiving and technical complexity of preserving diverse materials 8:00.
• Their workflow involved discovery, risk-based prioritization, crawling with various tools, and multilingual quality control 12:56.
• They archived materials from manuscripts and museums to children's libraries, showing Ukrainian cultural diversity 15:00.
• Beyond web archiving, they provided equipment and created resources like the meme wall and web archive database 16:00.
The effort demonstrates how volunteer initiatives can quickly protect cultural heritage during crises, with lessons for future emergencies 21:00.
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All right. Hello. Thank you all for coming out after lunch. Uh, apparently I the screen doesn't work right here for you in the audience, but I've made a tiny URL link so you can go along with the slides. Um, I'm a like pretty slide so you have something to look at that's not me while I'm talking kind of person. So, um, go to the slide link. It will be great. Uh, tinyurl.com/defconsucho defo. Um, so you can follow along with the slides and I'll I'll try to cue you for for flipping through them as we go. Um, and they'll also be in the recording apparently. Um, all right. Yep. So, I'm Quinn Nouski. I am a what's called an academic technology specialist at Stamford um in the department of um non-English literatures and the library. And I'm talking about building ons for emergency web archiving…