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New initiative: Memory Savers. Need equipment, know-how, and people to digitize collections. People are the biggest problem right now: lots of Ukrainian library/museum staff are in their 60's+ and it's a big leap. Got a grant to involve younger students in the work. Program runs June-Decemberr; working with NGO Center for Digital History in Rivne, Ukraine. Will pay stipends for students and organize project. 20 participating museums for initial program, museums had lots of applications!

Update on digitization equipment: 62 requests from a variety of kinds of institutions, #SUCHO has sent 103 pieces of equipment (laptops, hard drives, scanners, power banks, etc.) purchased using donated funds. #SUCHO will be presenting on a roundtable at #ACH2023 on ethics of digital stewardship in digital projects, and a poster at #DH2023.

An update from the #SUCHO metadata group: Alex Wingate has been leading the group working with the metadata for files stored on the @internetarchive. Only about 1k rows unclaimed (out of 6k); we especially need folks with language skills.

Kiley Jolicoeur reports we're close to 200 items available in the #SUCHO gallery! We'll soon be adding the metadata for the Cherkasy children's drawings; we've partnered with Cherkasy Regional Library on digitization equipment. @annakijas has been working with an undergrad art class at the University of New Hampshire, curating 40 items focused on Ukrainian jewelry and decorative arts.

@storytracer Talking with "Documenting Ukraine" initiative by IWM and Lviv Center for Urban History about key question: once you have digitized something, where do you go from there? How to provide Ukrainians with low-threshold digitization platforms and training? Lviv Center will organize symposium June 1-3, collecting common problems and challenges and responding to those. #Ukraine #SUCHO

Big news: #SUCHO received the European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award 2023! Please vote for us at https://vote.europanostra.org the award money can fund high-quality scanners for 15 institutions.

Recent #SUCHO events in Germany: hands-on session on meme collection at Leipzig Book Fair (by Association of EE Librarians in German speaking countries ABDOS + @storytracer ), panel discussion at annual German library conference in Hanover. Additional #SUCHO events in the Bay Area in early May: https://digitalhumanities.stanford.edu/sucho-week/ lay the foundation for a new initiative to work on Ukrainian library catalog data.

Cherkasy children's drawings have been added to the Gallery, and will be publicly available soon. #SUCHO Gallery has ~350 total items + 457 children's drawings. https://gallery.sucho.org/ #SUCHO meme collection: 2,605 total memes collected as of yesterday, plus updated navigation. Number of template and content headings has been growing steadily, began obstructing navigation. Re-arranged headings in category & added new filters. Harvard Pforzhheimer Fellowship has been granted to a grad student, Brett Donohoe, working on #SUCHO memes this summer, as well as a web archive curated for Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Working on explainers for different meme references. https://memes.sucho.org

Progress continues on curating metadata for files uploaded to Internet Archive. Almost 4,500 done, 970 still unclaimed -- looking for people especially with language skills!

Anna Rakityanskaya shares the update to the #SUCHO meme wall that @simonwiles has been working on, which makes it easier to navigate the huge number of memes. Please check it out (especially on mobile) and send us your feedback! https://sucho-memewall.pages.dev/

Andreas Segerberg has been working on authority records for the institutions where we captured content; have complete this for about 30%. Also planning to revisit web crawls for websites added to the Wayback Machine in 2022. Using 1-hop from start page on all resources, with the custom script that produces WACZ files. Message Andreas on Slack if you'd like to help.

@storytracer has an update on equipment & digitization: Ekaterina Malygina will be working for #SUCHO directly as of April 1st. First point of contact for Ukrainian institutions who need help with digitization: equipment@sucho.org. Open call for digitization aid will be posted first week of April. #Ukraine

Upcoming events for #SUCHO: April 5, 2023 at 1 PM (EST) - "Ukrainian Libraries during the Wartime: A Year in Review,"a Virtual Symposium hosted by San Jose State University. Register at https://ischool.sjsu.edu/webcast/ukrainian-libraries-during-wartime-year-review April 27, 2023 - Panel and Workshop at the Leipzig Bookfair https://www.leipziger-buchmesse.de/pco/de/buchmesse/63d1340f5f57852fa30ef22f May 3, 2023 - “What next? An update from SUCHO” at the Web Archiving Conference Online Day. Program: https://netpreserve.org/ga2023/programme/ May 8-12, 2023 - Bay area event series May 24, 2023 - Panel at BiblioCon 2023, Hannover: https://dbt2023.abstractserver.com/program/#/details/sessions/113 June 1-3, 2023 - “The Most Documented War”: Symposium for Ukrainian cultural institutions and documentation initiatives at the Center for Urban History, Lviv June 5-6, 2023 - RESAW Web Archiving Conference in Marseille July TBD, 2023 - “Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online: Responsive Emergency DH at Scale” at DH 2023, Graz, Vienna. Conference site: https://dh2023.adho.org/