Cultural Heritage Resilience — crisis monitor for cultural heritage

Cultural Heritage ResilienceBeta North American crisis monitor

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Cultural Heritage Resilience

This project may be downloaded from GitHub.

Build 2026.08.28.1 · Released August 28, 2026

Prototype: This map shows a non-exhaustive sample of cultural heritage organizations across North America and should not be treated as a complete directory.

This is an interactive live crisis map for North American cultural heritage organizations showing hazards that threaten libraries, museums, and archives. A representative sample of these organizations is plotted across North America alongside storms, floods, wildfires, earthquakes, heat and cold, and air-quality alerts.

How to read the map

Organization dots. Green marks libraries, orange marks museums, and blue marks archives. Click a dot to open its profile.

Red stars. These are organizations from your uploaded spreadsheet.

Hazard markers. Their icons and colors match the filter controls. Larger markers mean more severe events. Click one for details.

Shaded areas. These show official hazard boundaries when the source publishes one.

Red rings. An organization with a red ring is inside an active hazard area.

Some weather alerts list entire counties instead of publishing a map shape. The app matches organizations by county right away, then loads the alert's official warned-zone outline and re-checks each organization against it, so a valley library is not flagged by a watch that only covers the mountains. Until the outline loads, those matches are labeled "county-level" in the panel.

Live data sources

National Weather Service alerts — US watches and warnings, refreshed continuously
Environment and Climate Change Canada — Canadian weather alerts
USGS — earthquakes, all of North America
NIFC WFIGS — active US wildfire incidents
Natural Resources Canada CWFIS — active Canadian wildfire perimeters
NASA EONET — continent-wide natural events, including Canada and Mexico
RainViewer — optional precipitation-radar tiles

About the organization data

This beta monitors 2,583 institutions: a curated North American demonstration set plus 1,000 public libraries from the IMLS Public Libraries Survey and 1,000 academic libraries from NCES IPEDS. Public-library markers use central-outlet coordinates; academic-library markers use the reporting institution’s main-campus coordinates. You can also overlay your own list privately in this browser.

Curated North American demonstration set — project-maintained research covering libraries, museums, and archives
IMLS Public Libraries Survey (PLS), FY2023 — central-outlet records for the 1,000-library US public-library sample
NCES Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), FY2023 Academic Libraries and Directory Information — reporting institutions and main-campus coordinates for the 1,000-library US academic-library sample
OpenStreetMap — website addresses for conservatively matched imported public libraries
Project-maintained official library and government website review — additional reviewed public-library website addresses

Basemap: OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap. This tool is for situational awareness only — it is not an emergency alerting system. Always follow official guidance from local authorities.

Privacy information

Created and maintained by FreshPremise. OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code were used for assistance with coding, review, testing, and documentation.

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Upload a spreadsheet with organizations that you wish to see on the map. They will be plotted alongside the public dataset, matched against live hazards, and included in every export, brief, and outreach draft.

The file is read in your browser and saved only to this browser's local storage. The assistant cannot access it by default. If you explicitly enable private-list sharing in Assistant settings, relevant records may be sent to the AI provider you selected.

Spreadsheet format

Save your spreadsheet as CSV (in Excel or Google Sheets: File → Save As / Download → CSV). Tab-separated files also work. Include a header row, then one row per location.

Required: name, lat, lon. Optional: type (library / museum / archive), city, state, country, website, and fips (5-digit US county code; worth including because most US weather alerts are issued by county rather than by map shape).

name,type,city,state,country,lat,lon,website,fips
Example Public Library,library,Springfield,IL,US,39.8017,-89.6437,https://example.org,17167

Files are limited to 5 MB and 10,000 data rows. No coordinates? Geocode your addresses first: Google Sheets add-ons, the free Nominatim service, or the US Census batch geocoder will all turn addresses into lat/lon columns.

Tip: once your list is active, a "My list only" button appears beside the organization type filters. It hides the public dataset so the map, counts, briefs, and exports show just your organizations.

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Outreach draft

Generated from live monitoring data — review, personalize, and send from your own email client. Nothing is sent from this tool. Tip: paste it into the assistant to adjust tone or add specifics.