This repository contains the final project developed for the course
Information Visualization
(academic year 2023/2024, DhDk – University of Bologna).
The project investigates patterns of cultural destruction, looting, and long-term cultural appropriation in Ukraine through the integration and visualization of institutional datasets.
Using a data-driven approach, the website explores how different forms of cultural harm unfold across time, space, and political contexts.
🔗 Project website: https://csalguero10.github.io/DataVisualization_LootingUkraine/
🔗 Project notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1gtZOA8Lxsj58iOOaAueS3Mk1qSnBT414?usp=sharing
Catalina Salguero Palacino catalina.salguero@studio.unibo.it
- Data analysis & visualization: Stolen Objects, Archaeological Objects, Ukrainian Artists, ACLED datasets
- Webpage development
- Storytelling & visual styling
Elena Binotti elena.binotti2@studio.unibo.it
- Data analysis & visualization: Damaged Cultural Sites, UNESCO Tentative List, ICOM Red List, ACLED datasets
- Webpage development
- Storytelling & visual styling
Virginia D'Antonio virginia.dantonio@studio.unibo.it
- Data analysis & visualization: Stolen Objects, Archaeological Objects, ACLED datasets
- Webpage development
- Storytelling & visual styling
The website is published under a free license and is based on a template
designed by Brando and powered by Themeza.
The project integrates open institutional datasets released under the following licenses:
- Ukrainian War Sanctions Registry- Stolen Objects: Data accessed from the official website of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine (GUR).
No explicit open data license is provided. The data are used for non-commercial academic research and visualization purposes only.
All rights remain with the original data provider. - UNESCO Destroyed and Damaged Sites: Data accessed from UNESCO’s public heritage inventories.
No explicit Creative Commons license is specified. The data are publicly available and used for non-commercial academic research and visualization purposes, in accordance with UNESCO’s Access to Information Policy. - Linked 4 Resilience: CC BY 4.0
- UNESCO World Heritage & Tentative Lists: Data accessed from UNESCO’s public heritage inventories.
No explicit Creative Commons license is specified. The data are publicly available and used for non-commercial academic research and visualization purposes, in accordance with UNESCO’s Access to Information Policy. - ACLED Conflict Events Dataset: Data accessed from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED).
Use of the data is governed by ACLED’s End User License Agreement and Content Usage Terms. - Hermitage Museum Collection (Texty.org.ua archive): CC BY
- Wikidata Ukrainian Artists Database: CC0
- ICOM Red List of Ukraine: Reference information sourced from the International Council of Museums (ICOM).
The Red List is used for contextual and classificatory purposes only.
Content is not redistributed. All rights remain with ICOM.
Use complies with ICOM’s terms for educational and non-commercial research.
All CSV files produced and curated within this repository are released under the
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
This project is a non-commercial academic work.
It does not aim to take political positions, but to document, analyze, and visualize publicly available data in order to support further discussion on cultural heritage, conflict, and power.