Digital Aid: Kim Martin on CBC, Globe & Mail re: Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO)

From the Globe & Mail:
"Kimberly Martin, an assistant professor at the University of Guelph in Ontario, is one of the co-ordinators taking care of organizing the data that is being collected so that it’ll be easy to rebuild the sites that are lost. She would also find websites of importance and list them on a shared document where other volunteers could work on scraping their data.

Some of the historical work she helped save includes Ukrainian folk music, which she would play when doing hours of volunteer work to remind her of the importance of what’s being saved.

'It made it more meaningful and tangible to me,' said Prof. Martin, who put in around two hours every day at the start of the project, and now checks in once a day.

She expected that working with so many people online in a relatively unstructured format could be chaotic, but was pleasantly surprised with the group’s progress in saving thousands of websites.

'One of the most amazing aspects of this is seeing just the amount of people coming together,' said Prof. Martin."

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