Preserving Vulnerable Data and Collections

• 6 Ways to Use the Wayback Machine to Save Vulnerable Web Content

• Alliance for Response

• Archive Team

• Archive.today: Web capture tool

• Archiving Large Swaths of Digital Content: Lessons from Archiving the Occupy Movement

• Archiving the Protest Site

• American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works

• Archivists' Alley: Podcast centered on intersectionality and media preservation

• Browsertrix: Web Archiving Tool (paid service with a free trial)

• CDAC: Commmunicating with Disaster Affected Communities

• The Cobweb - Can the internet be archived?

• Community-Driven Archives Initiative (Arizona State University)

• Data Refuge

• Data Rescue Event Toolkit

• Data Rescue Project

• End of Term Web Archive

• Endangered Data Week

• Endangered Heritage: Emergency Evacuation of Heritage Collections (UNESCO and ICCROM)

• Government Information Data Rescue LibGuide (University of Virginia)

• Human Rights Web Archive

• International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM)

• International Coalition of Sites of Conscience

• Internet Archive - The Wayback Machine

• Invisible Histories

• Libraries Network for Data Rescue

• Library of Congress Emergency Management Resources

• MayDay: Saving Our Archives - Quick Tips

• Monument Lab

• MuckRock

• Nimble Tents Toolkit: timelines, instructions and sample materials for urgent challenges and crisis response

• “Pax Cultura:” The Nicholas Roerich Pact to Preserve Cultural Heritage

• Society of American Archivists, Crisis, Disaster, and Tragedy Response Working Group

• United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

• U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield: not-for-profit, non-governmental organization committed to the protection of cultural property worldwide during armed conflict.

• Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record (Internet Archive, 2024)

  • Vanishing Culture blog

• Wayback Machine Chrome Browser Extension

• When they Came Down

• XFR Collective is a non-profit organization that partners with artists, activists, individuals, and groups to lower the barriers to preserving at-risk audiovisual media 

Articles, Books, etc.

• Bell, Charlie and Agnes Ored. "Saving History: These Archivists' Mission to Preserve Social Media Record of War in Gaza." SBS News Dateline, 28 January 2025.

• Bond, Sarah. "Saving Endangered Data From Ancient Rome to Trump's America." forbes.com, 19 April 2017.

• Decker, Emily Nelson and Jennifer A. Townes. Handbook of Research on Disaster Management and Contingency Planning in Modern Libraries. IGI Global, 2016.

• Henry, Mia. "Collective Memory is a Political Project." Lifted blog post, 23 April 2025.

• Lucas, Julian. "The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump's Purge." New Yorker, 14 March 2025.

• Mattern, Shannon. “Public In/Formation.” placesjournal.org, November 2016.

• Routh, Julian. "Pittsburgh libraries join initiative to protect data." post-gazette.com, 3 April 2017.

• Schlanger, Zoë. “Rogue Scientists Race to Save Climate Data from Trump.” wired.com, 19 January 2017.