Nation's digital identity: Opening Ukraine's Archives with AI
Create an open digital ecosystem where everyone can explore millions of pages of Ukraine's history, preserving our cultural heritage for future generations and integrating it into the global information space.
Treasures behind closed doors
The State Archival Service of Ukraine is conducting a large-scale digitization of national heritage.
These scanned documents — handwritten and printed texts in various languages (Old Ruthenian, Ruthenian, Ukrainian) — remain undeciphered and inaccessible to researchers, citizens and businesses. We have the key, but not the door.
Artificial Intelligence as a key to the past
We propose to build a comprehensive platform for automatic recognition, analysis and access to archival data using advanced AI technologies.
Key steps
Develop and train AI models
Create specialized models based on modern LLMs to recognize handwritten and historical texts on a unique dataset of Ukrainian archives.
Build infrastructure
Deploy scalable and flexible infrastructure to process millions of documents, based on either private cloud in Ukraine or resources of global partners.
Create the access ecosystem
Develop an intuitive web interface that allows non-technical users to easily search, analyze and use the deciphered information.
Partnership opportunities
Your contribution to history and innovation
We are seeking technology partners ready to join a project with significant social impact and strong business potential.
What we offer
Unique access to data
We will provide access to millions of digital copies of archival documents — an invaluable resource for training and improving language models.
Co-development of technology
You will gain access to trained models that will become the foundation for new commercial and social projects in the field of historical data processing.
Preservation of world heritage
Your brand will become synonymous with preserving the digital identity of Ukraine, an important contribution to the global cultural treasury.
Creating new markets
Deciphered data will provide the foundation for numerous new services and will dramatically accelerate the provision of existing social services. 500k+ requests per year.
Our target partners
European technology companies
Joint projects to strengthen cultural ties and train models on unique European data.
Global AI leaders
Providing exclusive data to improve global language models.
Hardware manufacturers
Participation in partnership programs to provide the project with the necessary computing power (GPU).
What we need to implement
Technological expertise
Assistance in fine-tuning LLMs and designing the platform architecture
Computing power
Access to GPU infrastructure for model training and inference
Our resources and support
The State Archival Service of Ukraine provides access to data, its own storage systems (~200 TB) and archival experts.
Quality control team. Specialists for verification of recognition results.
Scientific and cultural community. Support from leading historians, calligraphers and Ukrainian cultural centers abroad.