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Archives

Accessible databases of civic and media archives.

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Project Dokaz Alliance
dornsife.usc.edu/cagr-news/news/2022/06/33571-starling-lab-and-hala-systems-file-cryptographic-submission-evidence-war-crimes

Project Dokaz Alliance

This project brings together leading innovators from the international criminal law community with pioneers in the Web3 ecosystem to develop secure and resilient solutions for accountability in Ukrain...

450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
Archives, Blockchain, Emerging tech
Ukraine, human rights, humanitarian
Starling Lab
starlinglab.org

Starling Lab

A new methodology to restore trust in digital media

California
Emerging tech, Blockchain, Archives
history
Big Local News
biglocalnews.org/content/about

Big Local News

Empowering journalists with data, tools and collaborations

450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
Civic data, Archives, Media
Save
open-archive.org/save

Save

Save (Share Archive Verify Encrypt) by OpenArchive enables you to safely preserve, organize, and share your mobile media. Designed with and for newsrooms, human rights defenders, and archivists, Save...

Archives, Media, Digital security and privacy
apps
WhatsApp archiver
tattle.co.in/products/whatsapp-archiver

WhatsApp archiver

The WhatsApp archiver consolidates chat files exported from different WhatsApp conversations into one database

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳
Civic data, Archives, Messaging app analysis
Kosh
tattle.co.in/products/kosh

Kosh

Archive containing content scraped from all the different sources- the Tattle Jod telegram bot, Fact-checking sites, social media and chat apps.

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Wikirumours
wikirumours.org

Wikirumours

WikiRumours is a web-based database which enables geographically distributed teams to collaborate asynchronously on monitoring, verifying, and countering the spread of harmful rumours and misinformati...

Canada 🇨🇦
Media, Fight disinformation, Archives
Disinfo Database
euvsdisinfo.eu/disinformation-cases

Disinfo Database

EU vs Disinfo's database of over 12,000 samples of pro-Kremlin disinformation

Europe
Archives, Fight disinformation, Media
Arquivo Casoteca
dissenso.org/casoteca

Arquivo Casoteca

Conheça casos envolvendo liberdade de expressão no ambiente digital

Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷
Archives, Legal tech
free speech
The New Deal Map
livingnewdeal.org/map

The New Deal Map

We've mapped more than 17,000 New Deal sites and now have more than 100 sites documented in every state.

United States of America 🇺🇸
Civic maps, Archives
Mnemonic
mnemonic.org

Mnemonic

Mnemonic is an NGO dedicated to archiving, investigating and memorializing digital information documenting human rights violations and international crimes.

Media, Fight disinformation, Archives
human rights, trainings
CourtListener
courtlistener.com

CourtListener

Search millions of opinions by case name, topic, or citation. 406 Jurisdictions. Sponsored by the Non-Profit Free Law Project. 501c3

Oakland, California
Open justice, Archives, Civic data
Fact Checks for Internet Archive Wayback Machine Pages
blog.archive.org/2020/10/30/fact-checks-and-context-for-wayback-machine-pages

Fact Checks for Internet Archive Wayback Machine Pages

The Internet Archive has started to surface some of these annotations for Wayback Machine users.

San Francisco
Fight disinformation, Archives, Factchecking
Archive Team
archive.org/details/archiveteam?and%5B%5D=parler&sin=&sort=-publicdate

Archive Team

Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake...

Archives
Documenters.org (Documenters Network)
documenters.org

Documenters.org (Documenters Network)

People-powered news on your local government. We’re putting every public meeting on the record. A City Bureau project.

Chicago, IL
Crowdsourcing, Media, Archives
local
#defensiveTO
defensiveto.com

#defensiveTO

Documenting the use of defensive urban design in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.

Toronto
Artistic interventions, Archives
city, place-based, Sustainable cities and communities
सङ्ग्रह (Collection)
sangraha.org

सङ्ग्रह (Collection)

The collection is a digital collection of literary works written in Nepali and other languages ​​of Nepal.

Nepal 🇳🇵
Translation and linguistic representation, Adjacent Fields, Archives
Dryad
datadryad.org/stash

Dryad

Publish and preserve your data

Archives, Civic data, Open data publishing platforms
Ad Watch
ad.watch

Ad Watch

ad.watch breaks open the machine of political advertisements on Facebook and Instagram with data of more than 150 parties in 34 countries.

Arizona
Advertising, The Tech, Civic data
Open Gazettes South Africa
opengazettes.org.za

Open Gazettes South Africa

Gazettes are a critical record of South African history. They should be easy to find and use, and freely available to everyone. With nearly 40, 000 gazettes from between 1958 and 2020 available, Open...

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦
Civic data, Open data publishing portals, Archives
WhoWasInCommand
whowasincommand.com

WhoWasInCommand

WhoWasInCommand is our free to use, public database of military, police and other security and defense force units.

Columbia University, New York, NY
Civic data, Watchdogging and transparency, Archives
peace, Peace, justice, and strong institutions, human rights
Internet Archive
archive.org

Internet Archive

Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 1 TRILLION archived web pages.

San Francisco
since 1996
Archives, Predecessors & Pioneers
Archiving local political websites
savingpoliticalsites.org

Archiving local political websites

Websites for local candidates disappear after elections. We’re going to save them.

United States of America 🇺🇸
Specific campaigns, Archives
TV News Archive and captions
archive.org/details/tv

TV News Archive and captions

Welcome to TV NEWS Archive! This research library service enables you to: Search more than 1,666,000 U.S

since 2012
Archives, Civic data, Media
Urban Archive
urbanarchive.nyc

Urban Archive

Urban Archive is a technology nonprofit that creates new connections between people, places, and historical institutions.

155 Rivington Street, New York, NY
Archives, Civic data, Civic maps
apps, history, place-based
Syrian Archive
syrianarchive.org

Syrian Archive

Syrian Archive is a open source platform that collects, curates, verifies, and preserves visual documentation of human rights violations in Syria

Syria (Syrian Arab Republic, Suriyah) 🇸🇾
since 2014
Archives, Civic data, The Tech
human rights
Participedia
participedia.net

Participedia

Anyone can join the Participedia community and help crowdsource, catalogue and compare participatory political processes around the world.

Vancouver
since 2009
Archives, Civic data, Civic tech catalogs
Facebook Ad Archive
facebook.com/ads/archive

Facebook Ad Archive

The Ad Library provides advertising transparency by offering a comprehensive, searchable collection of all ads currently running from across Facebook Products.

Palo Alto
Archives, Build something, Civic data
Facebook
ArchiveSocial
archivesocial.com

ArchiveSocial

Social Media Archiving Built for Government Transparency

212 W Main Street Durham, NC 27701
since 2020
Archives, Bureaucracy tech, Civic data
Princeton Corpus of Political Emails
electionemails2020.org

Princeton Corpus of Political Emails

This corpus contains emails from candidates running for state and federal office, political parties, and other political organizations like PACs. As of Sun Oct 18 23:52:25 EDT 2020, the corpus contain...

Advocacy tech, Organize campaigns, The Tech
US Election 2020
Kildare Street
kildarestreet.com

Kildare Street

Parliamentary monitoring in Ireland

Cork, Ireland
since 2009
Archives, Watchdogging and transparency, Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
Pocket Law
publiclaw.uct.ac.za/news/legal-library-pocketlaw

Pocket Law

Pocket Law is an offline legal library for students with no internet connection at home, and for courts with limitedinternet connectivity. Additionally, smaller or younger law firms can also subscribe...

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦
Adjacent Fields, Archives, Civic data
Block Party
blockparty.studio

Block Party

We make local policy information accessible and byte-sized, with a weekly email of your community board’s most recent meeting highlights and transcript data.

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)
since 2020
Civic and social impact companies, Communicating with the government, Data science for social good
Data Refuge
ppehlab.org

Data Refuge

The Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities (PPEH) fosters interdisciplinary environmental collaboration and scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, and beyond.

since 2014
Archives, Civic data, The Tech
Oyez
oyez.org

Oyez

It aims to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955.

565 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60661
Adjacent Fields, Archives, Civic data
End of Term Web Archive
eotarchive.org

End of Term Web Archive

The End of Term Web Archive is a collaborative initiative that collects, preserves, and makes accessible United States Government websites at the end of presidential administrations

San Francisco
since 2008
Archives, Civic data, The Tech
Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI)
envirodatagov.org

Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI)

EDGI is an action-oriented research collaborative driven by the Environmental Right to Know (ERTK) – the belief that people should be able to know and make decisions about environmental conditions of...

United States of America 🇺🇸
since 2016
Civic data, Data governance, Watchdogging and transparency
Sustainable cities and communities, Life on land
Parliamentary Monitoring Group (PMG)
pmg.org.za

Parliamentary Monitoring Group (PMG)

PMG aims to provide accurate, objective, and current information on all parliamentary committee proceedings in the form of detailed, unofficial minutes and documents and since 2007, sound recordings o...

Parliamentary Monitoring Group, 2nd floor, Associated Magazines, 21 St. Johns Street, Cape Town 8001
since 1995
Archives, Open government data, Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice
Source Africa
sourceafrica.net

Source Africa

It is Africa’s premier repository for documents that the public need to help make more informed decisions, or that help civic watchdogs such as the media or social justice NGOs substantiate their repo...

Africa
since 2015
Civic data, Crowdsourcing, Media
free speech
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