Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) and the Future of Archivable Scholarly CommunicationOn March 1st, days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Anna Kijas, Quinn Dombrowski, and Sebastian Majstorovic co-founded Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (
SUCHO.org) to archive Ukrainian cultural heritage websites. Since then, the project has brought together over 1,300 volunteers -- largely from North America and Western Europe -- and has captured more than 50 TB of data from over 4,500 websites. This talk from two of the co-founders (Dombrowski and Majstorovic) will cover opportunities and challenges that the project has faced over the past five months, focusing in particular on common web-based tools and platforms (including website event calendars, DSpace, and open-access journal interfaces) that have helped and hindered SUCHO's work. The issues surfaced by SUCHO have implications for the future of sustainable, archivable scholarly communications, in the context of war and beyond.
In addition to their work on SUCHO, Quinn Dombrowski is an Academic Technology Specialist at Stanford University, and Sebastian Majstorovic is an IT Consultant for Digital Humanities at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
