We're celebrating 3,000 memes today on the #SUCHO #meme wall! They're annotated, translated, and are a remarkable (and often funny) record of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as shared on the internet. And if you'd like them in your feed, just follow @sucho_memes
https://memes.sucho.org/

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.

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

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.

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.

#SUCHO June community meeting today! Slides are available here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1frtmvP8ov-bK39aeqTllPw4m4IojEV_T0qd-XzpMewg/edit#slide=id.g1550a74b71b_0_61

The video we put together for #SUCHO is now up as part of the announcement that we've won a European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award! https://vimeo.com/835691996 Vote for us for the Public Choice Award to fund 15 scanners for Ukrainian institutions.
https://vote.europanostra.org
#DigitalHumanities #Ukraine #CulturalHeritage

#SUCHO has been selected as winners of the #EuropeanHeritageAwards #EuropaNostraAwards by
Europa Nostra and the EU Commission 🥳. Please vote for us in the Public Choice Award: https://vote.europanostra.org/. The award money would allow us to send 15 scanners to Ukrainian institutions. #DigitalHumanities #CulturalHeritage #Ukraine

It's been almost two decades since I spent a whole Sunday deep into video editing, and I'd forgotten the weird feeling of being adrift once you finish the project you were working on. 🫨 Looking forward to sharing this new #SUCHO video later this week.

I've often said that #SUCHO feels like the #DigitalHumanities version of a final game boss, where you have to draw upon everything you've ever learned to make it happen.

Somehow that keeps getting more true. I now have 24 hours to make a video, which I haven't done since college but was my major hobby for a couple years then.

Since #SUCHO it's impossible to not be impressed by the #Taipei #airport. Every gate in the transfer zone at least is deeply themed with some environmental or cultural heritage theme. To the point of impracticality even: traditional canoes or reimagined bird nests instead of chairs and chargers. But given the stakes it's hard to be cranky, even sitting on a pseudo rock. #CulturalHeritage

A writeup of #SUCHO week is now up on our #DigitalHumanities blog: https://digitalhumanities.stanford.edu/sucho-week/. Special thanks to the @internetarchive for their hospitality last week!

Sebastian Majstorovic presenting #SUCHO at Stanford's CESTA lunch talk series. This local museum website was archived by @epyllia last March; the museum was attacked, the director was killed, the website is down, but we have this record. #DigitalHumanities

The best #DigitalHumanities tip I know is to find yourself awesome collaborators in various time zones, so that when, e.g. UNESCO gives you one day's notice on a 6 AM meeting, you don't have to wake up early and scramble your life to make it work. #SUCHO

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/.

@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

@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

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.

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.

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/