Anna Rakityanskaya
Harvard University
Alex Gil
Yale University
Quinn Dombrowski
Stanford University
Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) is a rapid-response digital humanities project focused on archiving Ukrainian cultural heritage websites at risk of being lost during the war. Co-founded by Quinn Dombrowski (Stanford), Anna Kijas (Tufts), and Sebastian Majstorovic (Austrian Center for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage), SUCHO builds on previous efforts for socially-engaged digital humanities work, including the Nimble Tents mapping project following Hurricane Maria (Alex Gil et al.), while tackling new challenges around web archiving in militarily and technologically unstable contexts. This presentation will bring together multiple perspectives on the project: SUCHO co-founder Quinn Dombrowski will offer an overview of the work to date; Reyzl Grace MoChrindhe will share the experience of joining the project as a volunteer; Anna Rakityanskaya will talk about the Meme Team, an extension to SUCHO’s initial scope to collect memes about the war in multiple langauges; and Alex Gil will speak form his experience as a “veteran” of rapid response DH, and what libraries and the cultural heritage community can learn from SUCHO.