This recorded session, fully titled Collaborative Preservation of Cultural Heritage: Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO), took place at Europeana 2022 - making digital culture count. Find out more about our annual conference at [ Ссылка ].
Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) is a global collective of more than 1,300 volunteers, working together to rescue Ukrainian digital cultural heritage. Using a combination of web archiving technologies, SUCHO has so far archived over 50 TB of cultural heritage data from more than 4,500 websites. The members of the collective are currently engaged in organising aid shipments of digitisation equipment to Ukraine, setting up an online gallery for Ukrainian cultural heritage, and collecting Ukrainian war-memes. These efforts were made possible by remotely pooling the expertise, resources and motivation of strangers.
How do you ensure that volunteers with different levels of digital literacy can equally participate in a shared community effort? What kind of technical infrastructure is needed to support so many collaborators working collectively with large amounts of data? And what lessons can we learn from SUCHO to avoid having to organise similar data rescue efforts in the future? These are the questions that will be tackled in this talk.
