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Foto: Daniil Skorinkin with Midjourney

Do It Yourself-Archives (Workshop), July 6-7, 2023

What this Workshop is about

Scanning postcards

How-to's and Best Practices

Low-resource data collection and preservation, tools and platforms for archiving, processing metadata the easy way

Public engagement

Archival Activism

Public outreach, volunteer management, organising crowdsourcing work

Low-Cost Technologies for Low-Resource Achives

Omeka, OpenRefine, free web crawlers, databases and makeshift database solutions

Schedule

July, 6th (optional learning day @ University of Potsdam, Campus Neues Palais, Room 1.04.2.07), register here

  • 10:00 — Welcome by the head of the Theodor-Fontane-Archive Prof. Dr. Peer Trilcke
  • 10:30 — OpenRefine Workshop by Dr. Yael Netzer, part 1
  • 12:00 — Lunch
  • 13:00 — OpenRefine Workshop by Dr. Yael Netzer, part 2
  • 14:30 — Coffee break
  • 15:00 — OpenRefine Workshop by Dr. Yael Netzer, part 3
  • 16:30 — Coffee break
  • 17:00 — OpenRefine Workshop by Dr. Yael Netzer, part 4
  • 18:00 — End of day 1

July, 7th (main day @ Theodor-Fontane-Archive, Große Weinmeisterstr. 46/47, 14469 Potsdam), register here

  • 10:00 — Gathering of the participants, welcome by the deputy head of the Theodor Fontane Archive Anna Busch
  • 10:30 — Archiving love letters, war memes, and tweets: tales from the inside of digital archival projects

  Nadine Dietz and Lena Dunkelmann: The Love Letter Archive - Insights into collecting and digitizing private love letters (with citizen scientists)

  Olena Sharafanenko: Archiving experience in SUCHO (with a focus on the SUCHO Meme Wall)

  Robert Jäschke: Tales from the inside: 10 years of growing and maintaining a multi-terabyte longitudinal archive of web pages and tweets

  • 12:00 — Lunch break
  • 13:00 — Online guest talks section

  Nataliia Tyschkevich (online): "I would digitize every document you touched, but I didn’t want to serve the oligarchic capital": An attempt to make archive of the Soviet Armenian textile factory in times of gentrification

  Thorsten Ries (online): Born-digital Archives - Preservation and Forensic Perspectives

  • 14:30 — Coffee break
  • 15:00 — Self-made DIY archives with zero budget and no institutional backing

  Antonina Martynenko: Manually curated poetic corpora: Using small-scale data for study of ideology,  canonicity, and evolution of literature

  Yael Netzer: Creating archives (and catalogues of any size) as linked data - with tables, OpenRefine and   Omeka S.

  Dmitry Zharov: How to digitize and transcribe 20 000 old postcards with 0 budget: the case of 'Pishu tebe', an open corpus of transcribed postcards built entirely by volunteers

  • 16:30 — Coffee break
  • 16:30 — Round table and discussion on how-to's and best/worst practices

Speakers

Briefstapel, der von einem roten Band zusammengehalten wird
Foto: Foto: provided by "Gruß & Kuss - letters digitized"

Nadine Dietz und Lena Dunkelmann

Technical University of Darmstadt, Projekt Gruß & Kuss - letters digitized. Citizens receive love letters

University of Koblenz, Projekt Gruß & Kuss - letters digitized. Citizens receive love letters

Talk: The Love Letter Archive - Insights into collecting and digitizing private love letters (with citizen scientists)

 

Briefstapel, der von einem roten Band zusammengehalten wird
Foto: Foto: provided by "Gruß & Kuss - letters digitized"
Robert Jäschke
Foto: provided by Robert Jäschke

Prof. Dr. Robert Jäschke

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft

Talk: Tales from the inside: 10 years of growing and maintaining a multi-terabyte longitudinal archive of web pages and tweets

Robert Jäschke
Foto: provided by Robert Jäschke
Antonina Martynenko
Foto: provided by Antonina Martynenko

Antonina Martynenko

University of Tartu

Talk: Manually curated poetic corpora: Using small-scale data for study of ideology, canonicity, and evolution of literature

Antonina Martynenko
Foto: provided by Antonina Martynenko
Yael Netzer
Foto: Daniil Skorinkin

Dr. Yael Netzer

Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University

Talk: Creating archives (and catalogues of any size) as linked data - with tables, OpenRefine and Omeka-s

Yael Netzer
Foto: Daniil Skorinkin
Olena Sharafanenko
Foto: provided by Olena Sharafanenko

Olena Sharafanenko

Bavarian State Library/Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO)

Talk: Archiving experience in SUCHO (with a focus on the Meme Wall project)

Olena Sharafanenko
Foto: provided by Olena Sharafanenko
Peer Trilcke
Foto: provided by Peer Trilcke

Prof. Dr. Peer Trilcke

University of Potsdam

Peer Trilcke
Foto: provided by Peer Trilcke
Natasha Tyschkewitsch
Foto: Лилька Орловская

Natasha Tyshkevich

Project "Sowjetische Speziallager" in der SBZ/DDR

Natasha Tyschkewitsch
Foto: Лилька Орловская
Dmitry Zharov
Foto: Maria Chernykh

Dmitry Zharov

Vienna, Central European University

Talk: How to digitize and transcribe 20 000 old postcards with 0 budget: the case of 'Pishu tebe' (sysblok.ru/postcards)

Dmitry Zharov
Foto: Maria Chernykh

Organizers

Potsdam Network for Digital Humanities and the Theodor-Fontane-Archive
Anna Busch, Daniil Skorinkin, Peer Trilcke

Mail: digital-humanitiesuni-potsdamde

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DH_Potsdam #DIYArchive