Do It Yourself-Archives (Workshop), July 6-7, 2023
What this Workshop is about
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
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)
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
Antonina Martynenko
University of Tartu
Talk: Manually curated poetic corpora: Using small-scale data for study of ideology, canonicity, and evolution of literature
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
Olena Sharafanenko
Bavarian State Library/Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO)
Talk: Archiving experience in SUCHO (with a focus on the Meme Wall project)
Prof. Dr. Peer Trilcke
University of Potsdam
Natasha Tyshkevich
Project "Sowjetische Speziallager" in der SBZ/DDR
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)
Organizers
Potsdam Network for Digital Humanities and the Theodor-Fontane-Archive
Anna Busch, Daniil Skorinkin, Peer Trilcke
Mail: digital-humanitiesuuni-potsdampde
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DH_Potsdam #DIYArchive