# A research archive for Gornja Siga **URL:** \ **Category:** News & Announcements\ **Created:** [November 7, 2026, 10:34am UTC](https://forum.liberland.org/t/a-research-archive-for-gornja-siga/1560 "2026-11-07T10:34:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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Gornja Siga, about seven square kilometres of floodplain forest on the west bank of the Danube, has a history that is harder to read than its size suggests. The line between Croatia and Serbia along this stretch of the river goes back to cadastral surveys of the nineteenth century. The river has moved since then. The maps have not. Croatia reads the border from the old maps, Serbia from the present course of the water, and each reading places Gornja Siga on the other side of the line. On 13 April 2015, Liberland was founded on this land. The documents behind the positions of all sides sit in different archives, in several languages, and some exist only online, where pages change or disappear. No single collection has brought them together. That is the purpose of the Gornja Siga Digital Research Archive (GSDRA). Liberland supports its establishment. The archive itself is independent: it takes no position on the status of the land and collects material from every side of the question. Anyone can contribute. A scan of an old map, a newspaper clipping, a photograph, a recording, a saved copy of a website: each item is registered with a note of its source and the date it was received. Integrity is built in rather than promised. Every record receives a cryptographic fingerprint and is chained to the records before it. At regular intervals the state of the chain is signed and deposited with independent parties outside the archive. A researcher can later check that a document is the one that was filed, when it was filed, and that nothing has been altered, removed or reordered since. Researchers and interested members of the public will have access to the catalogue and to the open material. Items containing personal data or subject to other restrictions will be available under controlled access. More than 1,000 documents have already been collected ahead of the launch: treaties and agreements, historical and current maps, video recordings, newspaper articles, archived websites and other material. The border questions on the Danube have been argued for decades, each side citing its own sources. An independent record of what the documents say, and how they relate to each other, is the starting point for any serious discussion. The archive is meant to provide that record. It is expected to begin operating by the end of the year.   info@liberland.org