Event Description
In the midst Russia’s War on
Ukraine, how can crowd-sourced efforts to preserve digital cultural heritage
pave the way for future healing?
“We are a group of more than
1,300 cultural heritage professionals – librarians, archivists, researchers,
programmers – working together to identify and archive at-risk sites, digital
content, and data in Ukrainian cultural heritage institutions while the country
is under attack. We are using a combination of technologies to crawl and
archive sites and content, including the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, the Browsertrix crawler. So far we have saved more
than 30TB of scanned documents, artworks and many other digital materials from
3,500+ websites of Ukrainian museums, libraries and archives.”
Register in advance at
https://tinyurl.com/AAMLHealing
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Anna E. Kijas
is Head of Lilly Music Library at Tufts
University. She is an active member of the Music Library Association (MLA) and
serves as Editor for the Technical Reports & Monographs in Music
Librarianship series. Anna also serves on the Executive Council of the
Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and co-chairs the Digital
Pedagogy Interest Group for the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI). Her
research interests include exploring the affordances and application of digital
humanities tools and methods in historical (music) research, the application of
standards, including TEI and MEI, for open access research and publishing, and
the use of minimal computing. Anna co-founded Saving Ukrainian Cultural
Heritage Online (SUCHO) in March 2022 with Quinn Dombrowski and Sebastian
Majstorovic.
Quinn Dombrowski
is the Academic Technology Specialist in
the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and in the Library, at
Stanford University. Prior to coming to Stanford in 2018, Quinn’s many DH
adventures included supporting the high-performance computing cluster at UC
Berkeley, running the DiRT tool directory with support from the Mellon
Foundation, writing books on Drupal for Humanists and University of Chicago
library graffiti, and working on the program staff of Project Bamboo, a failed
digital humanities cyberinfrastructure initiative. Quinn has a BA/MA in
Slavic Linguistics from the University of Chicago, and an MLIS from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since coming to Stanford, Quinn has
supported numerous non-English DH projects, taught courses on non-English DH,
started a Textile Makerspace, developed a tabletop roleplaying game to teach DH
project management, explored trends in multilingual Harry Potter fanfic, and
started the Data-Sitters Club, a feminist DH pedagogy and research group
focused on Ann M. Martin’s 90’s girls series “The Baby-Sitters Club”. Quinn is
currently co-VP of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, and
advocates for better support for DH in languages other than English.
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