{"id":12854,"date":"2021-03-02T23:26:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T23:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/?page_id=12854"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:48:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:48:04","slug":"borderlands","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/web-archives\/borderlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Borderlands Web Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 0em 2em\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/05\/From-rudaw.net_.jpg\" alt=\"A capture of a website preserved in the Borderlands Web Archive. This shows Kurdish news site Rudaw reporting on the coronavirus pandemic.\" width=\"200\" height=\"1160\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"clear: both;float: right;margin: 0 0 0em 2em\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/05\/From-www.spf_.org-islandstudies-jp_.jpg\" alt=\"A capture from the Borderlands Web Archive. This site about Japanese island territories is displayed in the Japanese language.\" width=\"200\" height=\"1296\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"clear: both;float: right;margin: 0 0 1em 2em\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/05\/From-jfp.org_.ua_.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot of a capture from the Borderlands Web Archive.\" width=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Borderlands are places situated between countries, between empires, or between spheres of political or cultural life that are considered to be separate from each other. Borderlands like the North Caucasus (effectively on the border between Russia and the Middle East) and Kashmir (on the borders of India, Pakistan, China and Afghanistan) are not well-covered by traditional research collections, which tend to focus on majority voices in historical centers of culture, literature, scholarship and political power (i.e., Moscow, Delhi, Beijing, Tehran, etc.). Similarly, many web archives tend to focus on major websites for major countries rather than smaller, more ephemeral web content written in non-dominant languages.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-it.org\/collections\/14190\">Borderlands Web Archive<\/a><\/strong> (BWA) is intended to capture this highly-multilingual online content, which is at increased risk of disappearing due to political, linguistic, historical, religious, social, environmental and\/or other factors. In many cases, the borderlands selected for inclusion in the BWA have a history of internal and external conflict and complicated relationships between diasporas, refugees, and former colonial or imperial legacies, making it likely that online content produced by various actors will change rapidly and\/or be removed from the Web at unpredictable intervals.<\/p>\n<p> <button type='button' class='shortcode sh-text-center sh-inline-block sh-align-middle sh-p-2 sh-bg-[#F8F7F7] sh-rounded-md !sh-no-underline hover:sh-bg-slate-200 !sh-border !sh-border-black focus:sh-outline-none focus-visible:sh-ring focus-visible:sh-ring-orange-700  !sh-text-black' style='font-size: 11pt;' onclick=\"window.location.href='https:\/\/archive-it.org\/collections\/14190'\" >Browse the archive<\/button><\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Collection Period<\/strong>: May 2020 to present<\/li>\n<li><strong>Frequency of Collection<\/strong>: Sites in the collection are not targeted for capture on a recurring basis.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Languages<\/strong>: Collection material is in various languages, including but not limited to Armenian, Japanese, Russian, Kumyk, Kurdish, Crimean Tatar, and Abkhaz.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Scope<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Websites of small local organizations and local news outlets.<\/li>\n<li>Websites created for a local or regional audience by interested local individuals like journalists, scholars, clergy, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Websites originating outside the designated geographical region that have a strong connection to it (i.e., via a diaspora and\/or refugee community) and\/or a strong focus on it (i.e., an academic or human rights organization focused specifically on that region or conflict).<\/li>\n<li>Websites that contribute to a wide range of perspectives on specific conflicts and borders.<\/li>\n<li>Websites that may be particularly vulnerable to political, cultural, or economic change, including:\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0.5em\">\n<li>Websites in local or regional languages.<\/li>\n<li>Websites connected to local or regional ethnic or religious groups that are under pressure from neighboring groups or external factors.<\/li>\n<li>Websites that express a strong political viewpoint.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Contact<\/h2>\n<div style=\"margin: 1em 0 2em 0;background-color: #ccdff6;clear: both;padding: 1em;overflow: hidden\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 130px;height: 130px;border-radius: 50%;float: left;margin-right: 1.5em\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/05\/condill.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Kit Condill\" \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/experts.illinois.edu\/en\/persons\/kit-condill\">Kit Condill<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Russian, East European, &amp; Eurasian Studies Librarian<\/em><br \/>\n331 Main Library<br \/>\nMC-522 (Campus Mail Code)<br \/>\n1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801<br \/>\n<span class=\" fa fa-phone\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> (217) 244-2073 | <span class=\" fa fa-envelope\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> <a href=\"mailto:condill@illinois.edu\">condill@illinois.edu<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borderlands are places situated between countries, between empires, or between spheres of political or cultural life that are considered to be separate from each other. Borderlands like the North Caucasus (effectively on the border between Russia and the Middle East) and Kashmir (on the borders of India, Pakistan, China and Afghanistan) are not well-covered by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":586,"featured_media":0,"parent":12846,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12854","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12854"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15241,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12854\/revisions\/15241"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}