Nimble Tents and Bunkers: The Role of Libraries in Rapid-Response DH
Document Type
Contribution to Book
Source Publication
The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities
Publication Date
12-2024
Editor
Isabel Galina Russell, Glen Layne-Worthey
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN
9781003327738
Description
Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO), a rapid-response DH effort focused on Ukrainian cultural heritage in the wake of Russia's invasion in February 2022, has brought together hundreds of library, archive, and museum workers from around the world to undertake a large-scale web archiving project. In this chapter, we contextualize SUCHO within the landscape of previous rapid-response efforts that expanded the recognized scope of digital humanities to include socially-engaged digital activism. We describe the major activities of the project, and offer two case studies from library worker volunteers: one co-founder, and one volunteer deeply involved with situation monitoring. Finally, we look towards the future of cultural heritage preservation by offering a speculative model for preemptive mutual web-archiving "bunkers" that could reduce the need for projects such as SUCHO in the future, and would be a natural undertaking for librarians, archivists, and museum workers, if given the space to build something new, collaboratively.
Recommended Citation
Pirmann, Carrie M.; Dombrowski, Quinn; Gil, Alex; and Kijas, Anna, "Nimble Tents and Bunkers: The Role of Libraries in Rapid-Response DH" (2024). Faculty Contributions to Books. 347.
https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/fac_books/347